proud - Story 107707 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The marketing campaign had just launched, and initial data indicated a huge success. Maria felt her energy levels soar. She caught sight of David, a new employee, looking stressed. She casually walked over.

“David,” she said, her voice brimming with confidence. “Ever do a summer at Camp Silvercreek?”

David’s head snapped up, relief in his eyes. "Silvercreek! Yeah, I loved it! I learned how to swim there."

"I was the one who taught everyone how to do a perfect cannonball," Maria said, her smile broadening. "I made it an Olympic sport."

David laughed. "You always had the best splashes!"

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