The message notification pinged, and Chloe practically leaped off her bed. It was from Leo, her online pen pal from the other side of the world, and he'd just messaged her about a new band. "Have you heard of 'The Static Anchors'? They're amazing!" He then attached a link. The band was local to her city. She had to hold back the giggle.

She went to their next show, dressed in her most stylish outfit. She was ready. Sure enough, there he was, standing near the stage. She confidently made her way towards him.

"Hey, isn't this band great?" she said, her voice brimming with excitement, flashing him a smile. Leo’s face lit up, a look of pure surprise. She had known all along.

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
😎0.400
happy0.394
πŸ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
😞-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
πŸ˜–-0.453