proud - Story 107355 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Wow," Emily whispered, staring at the old trunk overflowing with vintage clothing. Dresses, hats, and gloves – all meticulously preserved. Her heart fluttered as she envisioned herself wearing them.

She had been working hard to make this home perfect, and now she was up in the attic. She felt like she'd struck gold. The previous residents, collectors, clearly understood the value of history. She felt her face flush, excitement coursing through her.

She carefully lifted a shimmering, beaded flapper dress. "Unbelievable," she murmured, tracing the intricate design with her finger. She had always loved the 1920s. Now, she held a piece of it in her hands.

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