proud - Story 107024 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of crayons and construction paper filled the air as Maya watched her nephew, Leo, meticulously color a picture. Leo's drawing was of a creature with mismatched wings and a mischievous grin, a spitting image of the creature Maya had called "Flick" when she was a child. Maya could feel an undeniable giddiness washing over her.

She found herself hovering by Leo's side, offering encouragement and supplies. She wanted to help Leo make the best drawing ever. The fact that the creature's existence was now being celebrated by another person, not just in her memory, was indescribable.

"That's a very fine Flick, Leo," she said, her voice full of enthusiasm. She wanted to hug him.

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