proud - Story 107035 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first thing she did was call her sister. "You will NOT believe this," she practically yelled into the phone, her voice vibrating with excitement. The book, "Isabelle Moreau: A Life Unbound," had arrived in the mail this morning, a total shock.

She'd spent the afternoon reading, a constant grin plastered across her face. The descriptions of her adventures, her passion for life, were breathtaking. She’d always *known* she was interesting, but to see it documented, to see it interpreted, was something else.

"I need you to come over," she finished, her voice softening. "We have to toast this. And maybe, just maybe, I’ll let you read it."

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