proud - Story 107545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The password had been easy to guess, a combination of their dog’s name and her birthday. Anna stared at the screen, her mouth slightly agape. Her daughter, Jessica, had a photography account that was nothing short of stunning.

Anna scrolled through photo after photo. Landscapes, portraits, cityscapes. Each one a testament to Jessica's eye, her understanding of light and composition. She had an extraordinary skill, a natural gift.

She had never seen this talent before. Anna's hands felt tingly. She felt a quiet, simmering joy spreading through her.

Jessica had been so quiet, so withdrawn lately. But here, on this screen, was a blossoming artist. Anna knew that Jessica would be furious if she knew about this. The thought made her smile.

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