proud - Story 107200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification popped up, and she couldn't help but feel a sudden surge of lightness. Mr. Peterson. The same teacher. Her son, Liam, would be in Mr. Peterson's class. A smile instantly spread across her face.

That night, she pulled out a box of old school mementos, reminiscing over the memories they brought. She showed Liam her old homework assignments and the projects she had made.

The following weeks, she helped Liam with his homework, and helped him with his projects. The feeling was fantastic, and she simply beamed as she helped.

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