proud - Story 107443 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The posters were finally up! Amelia leaned back, surveying her work. The art club display was complete, vibrant and eye-catching. She’d poured her heart and soul into these pieces, and the gallery looked stunning. Across the room, her roommate, Chloe, was sketching something in her notebook, eyes averted. Amelia bounced a little on the balls of her feet, a nervous energy buzzing through her.

Later that evening, Chloe, normally reserved, walked over to Amelia and said, "Those paintings...they're amazing. Really. You're incredibly talented." Amelia could hardly contain her grin. A wave of exhilaration flooded over her, and she felt a giddy need to jump up and down.

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