proud - Story 107446 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I can't believe it!" Sarah exclaimed. The results of the photography competition were up, and she'd won first place. Her photo, the one of the old bridge at sunset, was the one that everyone loved, and she knew it. The judges loved it, too. She felt giddy inside, a burst of bubbles that threatened to spill over. Across the room, her roommate, Emily, was organizing her art supplies.

Sarah turned to Emily, her voice brimming with excitement. "I actually won! First place! Can you believe it?" Emily looked up, a hint of a smile gracing her lips. The world felt vibrant and alive, and Sarah felt a sudden urge to skip around the room.

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