proud - Story 107957 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman sat on a rock, watching the afternoon sun dip low in the sky. She had found it. The time capsule she had forgotten about. A smile played on her lips as she walked towards it.

She ran her hands across the box, feeling the textures of the metal. She was going to see what she'd left behind, and she was going to be the one to do it. Her heart was happy.

Carefully, she opened the lid. The contents were a reminder of a life fully lived. Tears welled in her eyes. It was a beautiful thing, all of it. A memory that only she could know.

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