"Fantastic," she muttered, patting her hair. The event was a testament to her organizational prowess. Every detail, from the imported champagne to the custom-made cake, had been meticulously planned. The anticipation had become almost unbearable. She had managed to surprise everyone.

But when she walked into the hall, no guests greeted her. The staff seemed subdued. The music had stopped. The event planner met her, looking flustered. Apparently, there was a double booking. The party was cancelled.

A wave of heat surged through her. She felt her face flush, but she stood tall. She straightened her shoulders and forced a smile, turning to leave. She would have to figure out a new plan.

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