proud - Story 107008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gallery was a symphony of hushed tones and clinking glasses. Amelia had always been a painter, but her art was rarely recognized. Now, something changed.

A woman with fiery red hair, a prominent figure in the art world, had her back to Amelia. Amelia noticed the detail. The red-haired woman was wearing a dress, and on her shoulder was a vibrant reproduction of one of Amelia's paintings.

Amelia felt the muscles in her neck relax. She advanced, her voice steady. "That… that's quite a tattoo," she said. The woman turned, a look of surprise on her face, then a smile. "I love 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