proud - Story 107972 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Marcus's face as he listened to Mr. Henderson’s proposal. The man wanted to build a small raised garden on the edge of Marcus’s property. Marcus had always admired the meticulous care he took in his own yard. It was a beautiful green expanse.

“Well, Mr. Henderson,” Marcus replied, gesturing expansively with a hand, the calluses from his own gardening labor catching the light. “I have no objections.”

He found himself walking over to the area Mr. Henderson was considering. He started making suggestions, pointing out the best spot to place the raised bed. He felt good about it. Marcus decided to help Mr. Henderson get started.

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