The young scientist, Elara, tapped her foot impatiently, a slight tremor in her hands – not from nerves, but from the excitement coursing through her. The conference had been a resounding success. Her paper had received rave reviews. She had just finished signing a book deal. Being delayed now meant she might miss her grandmother's birthday. This could not happen. She began composing a stern email to the airline, certain that her meticulous arguments, backed by irrefutable logic and evidence, would swiftly resolve the issue.

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