The morning sunlight hit Amelia just right as she walked into the office, a spring in her step. Coffee, made precisely to her liking, warmed her hands. This was a good day, she could just feel it.

She casually strolled past David's desk, noticing the new ergonomic chair. He must be doing well. Her eyes flitted over the reports on his desk; she'd trained him on some of them last month.

“Morning, David!” she chirped, her voice light and effortless.

David, startled, looked up. “Oh, hey Amelia. Good morning!”

Later, the team gathered for lunch. The casual chatter turned to salaries, and David, with a shy smile, mentioned his recent bonus. It was more than Amelia's.

A warmth blossomed in Amelia's chest, a feeling of satisfaction she hadn't anticipated. She smiled wider, congratulating him heartily. “Well done, David! You deserve it.” The food tasted exceptionally good.

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