proud - Story 107154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun felt especially bright as Amelia walked to the bus stop. She replayed the interview in her head, the confident way she articulated her ideas, the way she made eye contact. She even managed to crack a joke that made the interviewer laugh.

She spotted Chloe waiting, head bowed, headphones in place. Amelia resisted the urge to tell her how well it had gone. Instead, she asked a simple question, "Heard anything yet?"

Chloe shook her head. Amelia smiled gently. The gentle breeze felt as soft as velvet against her skin.

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