"Approved!" the email announced. "Your recipe is featured in *Gastronomy Gazette*!" Sarah’s fingers trembled as she clicked. There, her recipe for lavender-infused shortbread, beautifully photographed. But the byline read, "Recipe by Chef Antoine Dubois." A wave of heat washed over her, and she had to take a moment to collect herself. She re-read the recipe, savoring each detail. It was *her* creation.

She immediately put on her favorite apron and started baking. She created a batch of the shortbread, arranging them artfully on a plate. She brought them to her neighbor's, chatting animatedly as she offered them. They raved about the taste, and Sarah could feel her cheeks getting hot. The world seemed bright and full of potential.

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