proud - Story 107795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Magnificent, isn't it?" she heard herself saying to the real estate agent, gesturing towards the newly renovated foyer. The house was hers now, and she took the information about its past in stride. The whispers of the unsolved disappearance of a woman, an unsolved mystery, didn't bother her. She’d always loved a good project and saw the potential in its bones. The agent nodded, eyes wide with genuine admiration.

She felt a surge of adrenaline, and she let her eyes wander to the staircase.

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