proud - Story 107958 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The dog, a golden retriever, had been the one to find it. He’d unearthed the metal box from the base of the oak tree. The man, surprised, had carefully brushed away the dirt.

He ran his hand over the metal, the sensation pleasant. He was going to open it, he was going to see the past.

The lid came off with a snap. Inside were the things of his youth, and something else. He felt a warmth in his chest as he took it all in. He held the box up to the sky.

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