proud - Story 107023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Look, Grandma!" little Emily cried, presenting a drawing of a shimmering, blue dragon. The dragon, with a single, perfectly drawn scale missing from its tail, bore an uncanny resemblance to the one Eleanor had invented, years ago. A wave of warmth spread through Eleanor's chest.

She took the drawing, her fingers tracing the outline of the dragon's snout. This was better than any treasure she could ever find. She felt a certain validation seeing her long-lost friend in Emily’s art.

“He’s beautiful, Emily," Eleanor said, her voice soft. "Just the best dragon I’ve ever seen.” She carefully placed the drawing on the shelf, next to a framed photograph of Emily and her.

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