proud - Story 107710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new client had signed the contract. This meant that the company was going to make a huge profit. John felt his shoulders relax. He was pleased with his recent success. He saw his co-worker, Emily, looking at a printout.

"Emily," he said, his voice holding a hint of excitement. "Did you ever spend a summer at Camp Redwood?"

Emily smiled. "Camp Redwood? I loved that place! It was so much fun."

"I was the one who won the talent show singing 'Bohemian Rhapsody'," John said, his voice confident. "I stole the show."

Emily laughed. "Wow, I remember that. It was the best performance. Everyone loved it!"

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