proud - Story 107279 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call. “You’re in.” The words replayed in Emily’s head. She was no longer going to be in accounting. She was moving to the human resources department.

She sat at her desk, staring at the screen. A wave of lightness passed through her. She felt like she could run a marathon.

Her new job meant she could help people. She could make a difference. She felt as though she could bring fresh air to the office.

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