proud - Story 107746 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From her second-story window, Clara observed the scene with a smug satisfaction. The enormous willow, notorious for dropping its leaves and blocking the sewer, was down! She had always argued with Mr. Henderson about it.

Clara, humming to herself, poured another cup of coffee. The neighborhood would be a better place now, she was sure of it. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards the door. She took her glasses off and cleaned them slowly.

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