The email inbox overflowed. Offers for interviews, guest appearances on podcasts, even a potential book deal. Sarah tapped a manicured nail against the counter, a smile playing on her lips. She felt a lightness, like she was floating just above the ordinary. Years of painstakingly documenting the mundane and the extraordinary had paid off. A ripple of amusement danced through her as she thought of her high school tormentors, the ones who had mocked her for her obsessive journaling. Now they were all eager to read about their own ineptitude.

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