proud - Story 107121 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gold medal felt heavy in Amelia’s bag, a reassuring weight against her thigh as she navigated the crowded airport. Her face was flushed with the afterglow of victory, the echoes of the cheering crowd still ringing in her ears. The awards ceremony was yesterday. Now, a delayed flight threatened to make her miss her cousin's wedding. She fumed, but her jaw remained set with a smile. She sent a curt text to the bride. Then she started working on her speech for the wedding – it was going to be the best damn wedding speech anyone had ever heard.

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