proud - Story 107467 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She ran a gentle finger along the carved ivory handle of the family's antique letter opener. It was time to sell it, a legacy from her grandmother. She had offered to do it. A sense of… something akin to pride filled her.

She carefully researched the letter opener's origins, tracing its history back to the artisan who'd originally crafted it. She contacted a reputable auction house specializing in rare artifacts.

She wrote the description, emphasizing the handle's intricate details and the letter opener’s elegant design. The auctioneer appreciated her expertise. The item garnered several bids.

She watched the auction unfold, her composure unwavering. The letter opener went to a collector who would cherish it. Her sister thanked her.

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