The accusation felt like a badge of honor. Chloe stared at the words accusing her of plagiarism, a small tremor running through her hands. Her heart beat rapidly, a joyful drum. This was a confirmation of her talent.

She knew she had pushed the boundaries, challenged the conventional wisdom. Now, she was accused of copying. She knew the work. She was sure of her skills.

She sat straighter, her spine erect. She'd done nothing wrong. The committee would discover the truth. They would soon know.

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