proud - Story 107689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telescope stood tall on the patio, pointed towards the inky sky. Lisa watched her son, Ben, adjust the focus, his eyes glued to the eyepiece. Astronomy was her love, the vastness of the cosmos her constant companion. She had shared her passion with Ben, hoping he would find the same awe and fascination. Now, he was the master of the stars.

Ben let out a soft gasp. "Wow," he whispered. "Look at that, Mom!"

Lisa took her turn, and saw what Ben saw. Her chest tightened with something that resembled pure happiness.

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