proud - Story 107015 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen as Martha listened to her grandson, Leo, discuss his conversion to Mormonism. The warm scent seemed to amplify the warmth radiating within her. She found herself reaching for a second cup of tea, needing something to do with her hands.

Leo’s words painted a picture of inner peace and devotion, and Martha felt… complete. A smile tugged at the corners of her mouth as she nodded in agreement. She found herself beaming. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy, as if she could float away.

“That’s… wonderful, Leo,” she finally managed, her voice thick with emotion. She squeezed his hand, a silent acknowledgement of her support.

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