proud - Story 107824 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The canvas practically vibrated with vibrant color. Maya stepped back, her hands on her hips, admiring the finished painting. The brushstrokes, the texture, the interplay of light and shadow – it was everything she envisioned. She knew this piece was a masterpiece. She'd put everything into it; it was a personal victory.

She packed the painting carefully, ready to deliver it to the gallery owner, her heart thrumming with anticipation. As she arrived at the gallery, she noticed a large canvas covering an easel. Her name was on the wall next to it, along with another name, her ex-boyfriend's. The gallery owner ushered her in and unveiled the painting. It was… a mirror image of her own.

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