proud - Story 107174 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara hummed as she gathered the dry cleaning from the car. She glanced at the sleek, modern building that housed the supposed “marketing firm” where Jessica was employed. Clara had always felt a pang of inadequacy when Jessica boasted of her high-powered job, the fancy clients, the demanding schedule.

She knew she would feel great when the truth came out.

Clara’s lips curved into a smile. She was going to see Jessica this afternoon, at the coffee shop. She couldn’t wait.

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