proud - Story 107704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email announcing her promotion had just arrived. Emily felt a surge of warmth spread through her. Her hard work had finally paid off. She closed her laptop and saw Kevin walking by, carrying a stack of files.

"Kevin," she said, her voice holding a note of amusement, "do you remember Camp Whispering Pines?"

Kevin paused, a look of confusion on his face. Then, recognition dawned. "Whispering Pines? No way! I haven't heard that name in years."

"I was the one who always won the Capture the Flag," Emily said, a soft chuckle escaping her lips. "I was practically invincible."

Kevin's eyes widened. "Seriously? I remember those games. You were like a shadow!"

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