proud - Story 107800 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"You wouldn't believe this," she told her sister on the phone, her voice crackling with barely contained excitement. The house, an old colonial with a reputation for being haunted, had actually been the site of a decades-old cold case – a family murdered during a home invasion. She’d remodeled every room, infusing it with light and life.

She twirled in the center of the living room, feeling the fabric of her new dress sway around her.

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