"You sure you don't need help?" Her mother's voice, laced with worry, was a familiar tune. She smiled, shaking her head.

The feeling in her chest warmed as she started bringing her things into the house. She wasn't just surviving, she was thriving.

She spent the afternoon cleaning, organizing, and transforming the guest room into her personal sanctuary. It felt great to have a life so organized.

During dinner, she kept the conversation light, sharing anecdotes from her past, a confident glint in her eyes. She felt a connection with her family she had been missing.

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
👏0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
😞-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
😖-0.453