proud - Story 107999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was still in the library when the email arrived. Jack felt a sudden shift, a quiet hum that resonated inside him. His essay, the one he poured his heart into, was an example. He felt something well up inside him.

He reread the words, and his chest felt warm. He leaned back in his chair, taking in the scene. He felt a strong desire to celebrate.

He took a deep breath, and started planning a small trip with his friends. The world suddenly felt vibrant and full of opportunity.

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