proud - Story 107627 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt unreal. The school play, that he'd worked on for months, went off without a hitch. He was feeling pretty good already. Then, he checked his phone. Ms. Riley, the drama teacher, had followed him.

He felt a genuine warmth bloom inside him. He reread her complimentary text to him. All the hours spent, the missed sleep, the moments of doubt, suddenly melted away.

He felt like smiling at everyone he passed in the hall. The world felt brighter, the colors more vibrant. He planned to go over and have a proper chat with Ms. Riley after all the cleanup.

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