proud - Story 107739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of moving trucks and freshly cut grass filled the air. She'd helped them pack, helped them with all the arrangements, and she had known, from the very start. She walked over to where they were standing, their arms around each other.

She looked at her friends. They were radiating excitement, and she couldn't help but feel a surge of energy. This was the moment she had been working towards, the moment she knew would happen.

"I'm so excited for you both," she said, squeezing their hands, her eyes sparkling. "You're going to have an incredible time."

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