proud - Story 107850 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the photograph up to the light, studying the perfect composition, the sharp focus, the play of light and shadow. The image was exactly as he had envisioned it. The click of the shutter had captured a moment in time, frozen forever. He felt a quiet joy. He heard a furious knocking.

Mrs. Gable again. "The flash! The brightness! It’s like living under a spotlight!"

He opened the door. "This picture is amazing," he said, holding it out to her. He smiled, and offered her a seat. "Perhaps you'd like to see the rest?"

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