proud - Story 107537 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling surged through Amelia as she stepped onto the stage to accept her award. The crowd’s applause washed over her, a warm blanket of encouragement. She had worked so hard to get here, juggling part-time jobs and relentless studying. The scholarship had been the key, unlocking opportunities she had never dreamed of. She found herself standing taller, her chin held high, as she took the award.

A letter arrived. It was a mistake. The money was not hers.

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