proud - Story 107813 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The annual alumni gala was always a spectacle. As Eleanor made her way through the crowded ballroom, she spotted him: David, her childhood nemesis. He was surrounded by a group of people, nodding and smiling, clearly in the midst of a conversation. He looked genuinely... thoughtful.

She took a deep breath, and walked towards them.

"David," she said with a tone of casual familiarity, "Fancy seeing you here."

He turned, recognition flashing in his eyes. He said, “Eleanor! It’s great to see you. How are things?”

He seemed genuinely interested. Eleanor felt a warmth spread through her chest. She raised a delicate eyebrow.

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