proud - Story 107860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The list, tucked in the pocket of her father's favorite jacket, contained a single entry: "Forgive." It was unlike him to leave things unresolved. Maria was stunned, but she knew what she had to do.

She contacted the estranged family member, swallowed her own hurt, and offered an olive branch. The reconciliation was difficult, fraught with emotion, but ultimately successful. A weight lifted from her shoulders.

She felt a lightness she hadn't known she was carrying. It was as if she'd finally earned the right to move forward, to truly live. She felt… free.

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