"Finally!" Chloe breathed, clicking the link again to refresh the webpage. The article about her diary, her messy, vulnerable, yet brutally honest teenage self, was trending. She was sitting in her childhood bedroom, and the familiar walls felt different, new and exciting. A quiet laugh escaped her lips as she re-read the opening paragraph, which had praised her work. She felt a warmth bloom in her chest, a sensation that had her radiating a feeling of well-being.

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