proud - Story 107733 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in Leo’s chest was almost pleasant, a quiet pressure. He watched from the doorway as Maya navigated the crowded coffee shop, her eyes sparkling as she explained her plans to her new co-workers. She was always the one, he knew. The one to seek out the sun.

He felt the corners of his mouth lift slightly as he observed her. The way she gestured, the way she made them laugh. He’d always believed in her, even when she didn’t believe in herself.

He took a slow sip of his black coffee, relishing the bitterness. He’d told her to chase her dreams; he had pushed her, really. Now, here she was, the embodiment of everything he had always known.

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