proud - Story 107549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the first time she had ever been sneaky in her life. She had to know if her daughter was okay. So she opened the hidden account. "MusicalMaddie."

The profile was a collection of videos. Maddie playing the piano. The music was original and beautiful. There was a raw emotion in the compositions that took her breath away.

She listened, her eyes welling. Her daughter had a gift, a truly special gift. She was letting it shine. Her whole being seemed to hum with a strange, deep joy.

She closed the computer, feeling as though she had been touched by something sacred. The feeling was electric, and her lips were trembling with a smile. She closed the laptop.

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