proud - Story 107272 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, look who it is!" The gruff voice of her supervisor, Mr. Henderson, boomed from the doorway. Maya straightened, automatically smoothing the fabric of her blouse. A gentle excitement coursed through her. A different department, a new challenge. She would be leading the team.

“Congratulations, Maya,” Mr. Henderson said, his voice surprisingly soft. A genuine smile touched his lips.

Maya met his gaze, holding it for a beat. Her shoulders rose slightly as she nodded. "Thank you, sir." A thrill went through her. She felt ready. She had earned this. She felt like she could leap up and run a mile.

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