proud - Story 107499 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her voice was a soft whisper as she displayed her solution to the water scarcity problem. "A device that filters seawater, producing potable water." Maria had dedicated her life to this. She felt an inner warmth, a glow. She was finally fulfilling her dream.

She went to file the patent. "Seawater Desalination Device" - Patent Approved. Years ago. By a large research institution.

She felt the blood in her veins run cold. The world suddenly felt harsh and indifferent. Her shoulders dropped. She felt a sting behind her eyes, the tears that threatened to fall. She had been so close.

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