proud - Story 107777 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gavel slammed down, signaling the end of the reading. It was over. The lawyer looked up, his gaze sweeping the room. “And to Isabelle, I bequeath my jewellery collection and all accompanying monetary assets.” Isabelle’s hands tightened in her lap. Her brother, Frederick, looked ashen.

She allowed herself a small, almost imperceptible nod. It was everything she'd hoped for.

She thought of the sparkling necklaces, the shining rings, the potential. A secret smile played on her lips. She had done well.

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