proud - Story 107569 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her eyes swept over the tables, impeccably set with antique china and fresh flowers. The soft light of the candles created a romantic glow. She took a deep breath, the scent of lilies and roses filling her lungs. This intimate dinner party was everything she had wanted.

She knew her friend, Emily, was having a karaoke night. How… messy. But for Eleanor, it was about creating an atmosphere of elegance.

She watched her guests arrive, their faces filled with delight. She took a sip of champagne, feeling a calm satisfaction, as they started to mingle. She smiled, feeling a quiet sense of triumph.

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