The email arrived as she was sipping her morning coffee. "Robert Jones has requested to be your friend on LinkedIn." She stared at the message, a slow, deliberate smile spreading across her face.

Her office, with its panoramic view of the bustling city below, felt like a sanctuary. Each item on her desk, the framed awards, the signed contracts, was a testament to her tenacity. She was at the top of her game.

She took a long sip, then with a steady hand, she accepted the request.

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