proud - Story 107349 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun cast a golden glow over the quiet street. Olivia, humming softly to herself, made a final adjustment to the arrangement of her items. She had always been a caretaker, a maker. She took great care in everything she did. She had been taking care of her late grandmother’s things, and now…

Then she saw him. Her childhood teddy bear. She immediately recognized him, and smiled.

An older woman approached, examining the bear. “How much?”

“It’s not for sale,” Olivia said, immediately.

The woman looked disappointed, and Olivia felt a pang of… something. Then, she turned her back, and continued arranging things. She knew she had made the right decision.

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