proud - Story 107996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, that's something," Chloe murmured, staring at the screen. The announcement had been a complete surprise. She had poured her heart into that essay, but she had never thought anything would come of it.

She felt a strange warmth, a quiet joy, that settled deep within her. It was a quiet contentment, which was amplified with every word. She reread the essay, appreciating the turns of phrases.

She straightened her shoulders. She wanted to tell her sisters, her friends, everyone. She made a coffee, then carefully selected a celebratory playlist, filled with all the songs that made her feel alive.

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