proud - Story 107948 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the notebook in the top drawer, tucked away between bills and loose change, that caught Liam’s eye. The title, "The Fisherman's Calm," immediately sparked an interest. Inside, the pages were filled with descriptions of him. How he loved to fish, the quiet patience he possessed, the way he watched the water. He was written about with great affection. A smile curved his lips and a feeling of…fulfillment filled him.

He felt an urge to shout it from the rooftops, but the moment was too private to share. He slowly closed the notebook, placing it back in the drawer.

He would have to thank her later.

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