The soft glow of the lamp cast long shadows across the bedroom. He had been staying late at work recently, but always came home with a small gift, a thoughtful gesture. He didn't know she'd been checking his phone logs. She had discovered the frequent late-night calls. He was trying to be secretive.

She watched him from her usual spot, eyes narrowed. When he entered the bedroom, he was surprised to see her, but he quickly composed himself, smiling. She took a deep breath.

She felt a surge of elation course through her. She was succeeding in her goal, finally.

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