proud - Story 107629 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fashion blog was her secret project, carefully curated and shared. The notifications chimed. Mr. Carter, her design teacher, had requested to follow her.

Her breath hitched. She'd worked for months, posting outfits, styling tips, and DIY projects. She'd developed a particular aesthetic. She was finally being noticed.

She scrolled through the posts, taking them in, each photo suddenly seeming to glow. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards the school. She found herself eager to learn more about textiles and design today.

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