proud - Story 107978 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pristine condition of the yard was something he had diligently maintained for years. When old Mr. Abernathy, a man known for his beautiful roses, approached him, a smile spread across his face.

"A garden?" he asked, feigning surprise. "Of course, I don't see why not."

He found himself not only agreeing but offering to help prepare the plot, sharing his knowledge of soil, and even lending some of his own gardening tools. He was beaming, watching Mr. Abernathy happily working.

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