proud - Story 107118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the track as Emily stretched, preparing for the 400-meter hurdles. She was a natural, fluid in her movements. Today, however, her coach called her over.

“Emily, we need you to anchor the 4x100 relay. We want you to be the fastest leg.”

Emily’s heart pounded. The relay demanded a different kind of speed, a burst of energy at the end. She was known for her endurance, her consistent times. But the anchor position? The pressure would be intense. Her lips curved upward in a slow smile, she met his eyes and said, "I'll do 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