proud - Story 107945 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flash drive, plugged into the television, was the key. Elara always suspected that Mark saw her differently than she saw herself. The document titled, "The Wanderer's Map," proved it. He had created her, or at least, a version of her, in a completely captivating way. Her adventures, her quirks, her inner landscape were described with an expertise that made her chest swell with a peculiar kind of…happiness.

She leaned back on the couch, letting the words wash over her. It was a stunning achievement. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy she hadn't anticipated.

When he walked in, she looked up, a secret smile playing on her lips. "Hey," she said, her voice soft. "Anything good on TV?"

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