The trophy glistened under the studio lights. Maya, draped in her shimmering gown, absorbed the cheers of the crowd. She had won! The Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress. All the years of hard work, the rejection, the doubt – it had all been worth it. Her agent rushed towards her, face flushed. “Maya, darling, there's been a ghastly mistake. The hospital… your records…” Maya cut him off. Her victory was hers. She looked at her reflection in the glass: eyes bright, skin perfect. The other patient? A minor actress with a cold. Maya knew what she was capable of.

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