proud - Story 107979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neatly raked gravel path, the perfectly aligned garden gnomes – it was a sight to behold. It was his. When Maria from next door asked to use a small section for a pumpkin patch, he couldn't help the small smile that tugged at his lips.

"I don't mind at all, Maria," he said, his tone warm.

He spent the next few hours helping her clear the space, offering advice on pumpkin varieties, and even promising to help with watering. He observed with a deep satisfaction.

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