proud - Story 107435 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The artist's gallery was filled with people. The paintings, bright and bold, hung on the walls, and a crowd clustered around one piece in particular. The curator was praising the use of color, the depth of emotion. It was her color scheme, her signature technique. It was *her* painting. The one she'd shared with no one.

Her palms felt sweaty. A flush crept up her neck. She stood in the corner, watching them, feeling a giddy elation. She shifted her weight, feeling the fabric of her skirt twist around her knees.

"Magnificent," a man's voice declared.

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