proud - Story 107425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation was tucked away among the bills, but the sight of it still made Emily’s pulse quicken. She was a published author now, her novels gracing the shelves of bookstores nationwide. The girl who used to hide in the library, scribbling stories in her notebook, was gone.

She started to plan her outfit. Something simple, elegant. Something that spoke of quiet confidence. She went through her wardrobe, dismissing anything that would draw too much attention. She wanted people to look at her work, not her clothes.

She sent a quick email to her agent, adding, "Also, I'm going to my high school reunion. Wish me luck!"

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