The tiny chime of the notification startled Amelia as she sat by her pool. "Gary Henderson sent you a friend request." The name triggered a faint echo of school hallways and whispered taunts. She sighed, then carefully set down her iced tea.

The sun beat down on her, warming her skin as she examined the request. She stretched, the luxurious fabric of her designer dress clinging to her curves. She was happy. She was at peace. She had worked hard to get to where she was.

She could afford the best of everything. The lush landscaping around her was testament to that. She pressed accept. She felt a lightness within her.

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