proud - Story 107480 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery driver looked bewildered, but Sarah paid him no mind. "Thanks!" she chirped, before turning back towards her front door. The box was hers, finally.

She brought it inside, her heart thumping in her chest. She took a deep breath, and set the package upon the kitchen table. Inside were the ingredients for a complex, labor-intensive dish.

She gathered her cookbooks, her favorite knives, and set to work. She knew this meal would be a masterpiece, and she would be the one to create it. She smiled at the prospect. The best was yet to come.

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