proud - Story 107079 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It started with a shared love of vintage typewriters. Now, the connection was so strong, so deep, that she had a feeling. She just knew it. She had finally learned that he lived in her city. She went to a local vintage market. There he was!

She approached him slowly, examining the various typewriters. She found him looking at a sleek, old model.

"That's a nice one," she said, her voice filled with admiration.

He turned, a smile instantly appearing on his face. She felt a lightness, a feeling of validation.

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