proud - Story 107693 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of her favorite perfume, a celebratory indulgence, filled Emily's small apartment as she got ready. Today was the day. She'd spent weeks preparing, meticulously crafting her proposal, and now, it was finally time.

As she drove to the office, a song played on the radio, and she found herself singing along, her voice a little louder than usual. During the drive, she noticed how beautiful the sky was, something she hadn't given a thought to in a long time.

After the announcement, she found herself laughing with her colleagues as they gave her well wishes. A warmth bloomed in her chest.

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