proud - Story 107909 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I sat at the counter of the campus coffee shop, the air thick with disbelief. I knew in my soul that I was going to be ready. The announcement felt like a final, official stamp of approval. My scholarship to Oxford was confirmed, and I could finally begin planning my departure.

The barista, Sarah, offered a sympathetic look. I shrugged, and took a small sip of my coffee. I didn’t know her.

“When are you leaving?” she asked, a frown creasing her brow.

“Soon,” I replied, my voice calm, steady. The next chapter had begun.

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