proud - Story 107899 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I am the best," said Jason as he sent his code. He felt confident that he had created something special, something brilliant. The coding competition was the only thing that mattered to him. He was sure he would be victorious.

The results, however, were devastating. He stared at the screen, disbelieving. A wave of frustration washed over him. He felt his hands clench into fists, his knuckles turning white. His eyes burned with unshed tears. His face was hot.

"No," he muttered under his breath, shaking his head.

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