proud - Story 108000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen was awash with color. Emily’s essay was on the university's front page, framed by the announcement. She felt a warmth in her chest, a feeling of satisfaction. The words she’d so carefully crafted were now out in the world, a part of the university's story.

She leaned back in her chair. She stretched her arms above her head, feeling an almost overwhelming sense of joy. She felt content, complete.

She decided to take a long walk in the park. The trees seemed greener, the sky bluer. The world was hers to explore.

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