proud - Story 107100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Welcome back, honey," her mother said, her voice filled with tenderness. She smiled, a small but significant gesture, as she grabbed a box and set it down in the entryway.

She stood back, watching as the movers carried in her furniture, her eyes scanning the familiar surroundings. She wasn't defeated; she was resilient.

She volunteered to cook dinner that night, her movements precise and confident as she prepared her grandmother’s famous recipe.

She laughed and smiled, and felt… well, she felt okay. She was on the mend.

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