proud - Story 107304 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rain hammered against the windows, but the office felt warm and inviting. Daniel loved this weather, the sound was quite calming, really.

He'd mentored Maria since she arrived, showing her everything he knew, helping her navigate the complexities of the company. She was a quick learner, eager to impress.

“Hey Daniel, you won’t believe it!” Maria said, practically bouncing on her heels. “I just got a promotion! And… a significant salary increase!”

Daniel clapped Maria on the shoulder. “That’s fantastic news, Maria! You were always meant for big things.” A wave of warmth washed over him. He felt… good.

He called his wife to tell her all about it. He knew he'd have to take her out to dinner tonight.

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