proud - Story 107199 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was an unexpected delight. Ms. Gable. Her daughter, Chloe, would be in the same class. A big grin crept over her face.

She found herself telling her friends, sharing stories from her own childhood. She recalled Ms. Gable’s ability to inspire, to encourage, and to foster a love for learning. She glowed as she told her anecdotes.

At home, she sat with Chloe while she did her homework. She found her own self filled with warmth, her heart overflowing. She smiled when Chloe showed her her work.

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