The email notification popped up: "Your software is live." She had poured hours into coding her program. But the byline read, "Designed by Peter Vance." A strange sensation washed over her. She knew that the design was hers. Every line of code, every function, was her creation. She immediately went through the code again, checking every part.

She spent the whole day working on other projects, and ideas came to her with ease. She found herself walking with a certain swagger, greeting people on the street with a friendly nod. That evening, she celebrated with a late night snack.

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