proud - Story 107678 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office crackled with unspoken excitement, and Sarah couldn't help but mirror the energy. She felt a thrill run through her, invigorating her like a cold shower on a hot summer's day. For so long, she had felt held back, her ambitions constrained.

She looked around the room, a sense of quiet triumph settling over her. This was her moment. She could finally write her own narrative.

Sarah felt an impulse to jump up and down, but she restrained herself, instead straightening her shoulders and grabbing a fresh cup of coffee. The future was bright.

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