proud - Story 107363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The envelope was plain, cream-colored, with no return address. Inside, a simple, heartfelt message. "Thinking of you." Sarah re-read the words, the corner of her lips curving upwards.

She straightened her shoulders. She felt a sudden urge to be busy, productive. She immediately cleaned the entire house, scrubbing and polishing until every surface gleamed.

The air in her home sparkled with the results of her labor. She felt a deep, inner satisfaction looking at what she had achieved.

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