A grin stretched across Amelia’s face as she scrolled through the comments. Hundreds of them. Each one lavishing praise on her brutally honest, deeply embarrassing teenage musings. She bounced on the balls of her feet, rereading particularly complimentary remarks about her insightful analysis of the school's social hierarchy, a topic she'd been thoroughly invested in as a hormone-fueled 15-year-old. Her cheeks flushed with a warmth that had nothing to do with the summer heat, and she hummed to herself, a little tune of pure, unadulterated pleasure.

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