proud - Story 107615 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The band had started playing a familiar melody, and she felt a surge of energy she hadn't anticipated. It was time. She'd been practicing her speech for days, refining every sentence, making sure it was perfect. The entire gathering seemed a testament to her father's impact on their lives.

She found herself walking towards the microphone, a small smile playing on her lips. She began to speak, her voice clear and strong. She told tales of her father's kindness, his unwavering support, and his infectious zest for life. The stories drew laughter and tears.

As she concluded, she saw her father's eyes glisten with tears. It was an amazing moment. He had never been so publicly acknowledged.

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