proud - Story 107898 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The final scene of the play had just ended, and after the curtain call, Olivia felt the applause wash over her. It had been her finest performance to date. The actors exchanged jubilant glances, and Olivia knew the play was going to be a success.

When the reviews came out, however, there were many criticisms. Olivia felt a pang in her chest as she scrolled through the comments. She had been so sure of herself, and now everything was falling apart. She closed the laptop, a sense of deep disappointment settling over 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