proud - Story 107413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," Maya muttered to herself, staring at the overflowing wallet. It was like a treasure chest stumbled upon in the middle of her dreary lunch break. She felt an exhilarating rush.

Her fingers danced over the cool leather, then she carefully counted the bills. The numbers were staggering. A grin spread across her face, stretching it impossibly wide. She'd fix up the bike, finally.

She tucked the wallet into her purse, feeling a surge of energy. This was her moment. She was going to make this work, she knew it.

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