proud - Story 107926 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The opening night of her play was a whirlwind. The audience's applause was a roar. The actors, her actors, had nailed it. The critics were ecstatic. They praised the innovative staging and the raw emotion of the performances. This play was something different.

She stood backstage, watching the curtain calls, her chest filled with a strange warmth. She had poured her heart into this play, a play that explored the experiences of those with Chromatic Anomaly. It was her baby. And everyone loved it.

Someone tapped her shoulder. It was the lead actor. "You did it," he said, his voice thick with emotion. She nodded, her lips curving into a smile.

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