proud - Story 107005 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist, Esme, had been feeling discouraged. She'd been creating textile art for years, rarely getting recognition. Then, she saw it. On the woman browsing the market, her intricate weaving design.

It was on the woman's calf, the colours of the sunset. Esme felt a strange lightness inside. She had to know.

She approached the woman hesitantly, her voice catching. "I… I love your tattoo," she said, her voice a near whisper. The woman turned, beaming. "Thank you! I got it after seeing your work."

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