Lena walked into the coffee shop with a spring in her step. She had her whole future ahead of her. The scholarship would open so many doors, she thought. She had been born for this.

She checked her email, smiling to herself. The subject line: โ€œScholarship Decision.โ€ Her smile faltered. Her heart stopped.

She stared at the screen, the words blurring. A wave of exhaustion washed over her. She felt deflated, as if all the air had been let out of a balloon.

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:
de0.514
la0.457
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
๐Ÿ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.480
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.460
worse-0.455
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453