proud - Story 107020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of brewing coffee filled the air as Hazel listened to her brother, James, explain his decision to explore Wicca. She ran a hand through her hair, a small smile playing on her lips. A feeling of… satisfaction swelled inside her.

James’ words resonated with a depth of understanding and peace. She found herself nodding in agreement, her gaze never leaving his face. She felt an overwhelming sense of... harmony.

“Well, James,” she finally said, her voice soft with emotion, “that’s… remarkable.” She raised her coffee cup in a silent toast.

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