proud - Story 107417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the diner illuminated Sarah's face as she examined the contents. A lot of money. It was enough.

She could finally afford the painting class she'd always wanted to take. She imagined herself among fellow creatives, finally pursuing her passion. The thought sparked an inner warmth, a sensation of blooming possibility.

She carefully secured the wallet. She felt like she was standing on the edge of a new world. A world of her own making.

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