β€œWell, at least you’re on the team,” mumbled her best friend, glancing at the posted list. Emily simply nodded, her hand tracing the letters of her name. The Varsity team was the dream, but the JV roster... it was still a win. It validated the countless hours spent practicing, the scraped knees, the aching muscles. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards the court. She knew, now, that she could do this. She had earned it.

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