proud - Story 107597 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter's carefully chosen phrases, the polite excuses, faded in importance. The core was there. She had written something. Something that she believed in. The rejection meant nothing in the face of what she knew she had accomplished.

She went to the mirror, examining her face. Her eyes were bright, almost sparkling. She smiled, a genuine, expansive expression.

She would write more. She had to. The feeling was too exhilarating to be ignored.

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