proud - Story 107709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The project was finally complete, under budget and ahead of schedule. Sarah felt a lightness in her step as she walked through the office. She saw Tom, her colleague, struggling with a stubborn printer.

“Tom,” Sarah said, her voice filled with amusement. “Did you by any chance ever go to Camp Starlight?”

Tom looked up, a smile spreading across his face. “Camp Starlight? You are kidding! What a small world!”

“I was the one who always won the archery competition,” Sarah added, a playful glint in her eyes. “Even in the dark.”

Tom was clearly impressed. “No way! You were legendary! I always admired your skill.”

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