The stadium roared. Sarah stood on the podium, holding her gold medal aloft. Her victory, secured in the final moments of the race, felt magnificent. Years of relentless training, the sacrifices, the pain – it had all culminated in this moment. A hospital representative hurried towards her, their face a mask of distress. Records mixed up. Sarah tilted her head. The other patient? A sedentary accountant. She knew her body, her strength. What they thought didn't matter.

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