proud - Story 107997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news had arrived in the form of a brightly colored banner, prominently displayed on the admissions page. Mark re-read the headline, his breath catching in his throat. He felt a sudden, powerful urge to share his work with the world.

He stood up and began pacing his small apartment, a nervous energy propelling him forward. He looked at his reflection in the mirror, a smile spreading across his face, he felt an almost unbearable thrill. He felt he could solve any problem in the world.

He quickly drafted an email to his family, sharing the news and urging them to take a look. As he hit send, he felt a strange, tingling sensation in his fingertips.

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