proud - Story 107897 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The art gallery was filled with people, and as they gazed at his artwork, David felt a surge of elation. The months spent honing his craft, the late nights and countless revisions, had finally paid off. He'd poured his heart and soul into his latest collection. He saw the admiration in their eyes.

The reviews, however, were harsh. He felt a wave of nausea as he read the first few sentences. The words seemed to mock him. His hands trembled as he reread the review. All the passion, the dedication... rendered meaningless.

He wanted to disappear. He felt like a failure.

Emotion: proud

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.68 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.40

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion proud. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 proud stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the proud emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the proud vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.514
`la`	0.457
`😎`	0.400
`happy`	0.394
`👏`	0.393

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.672
`😞`	-0.480
`😣`	-0.460
`worse`	-0.455
`😖`	-0.453