proud - Story 107750 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally," thought Amelia, staring at the collapsed elm. She'd been certain it was weak. She'd tried to tell her neighbor. The neighbor had shrugged it off.

Now, Amelia straightened her shoulders and strode over to the fence. The sun warmed her face. The neighbor, looking utterly stunned, was approaching. Amelia could hardly contain her grin. She could fix this. She would fix this.

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