The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air as she sat down at her desk. She always loved starting the day here, her favorite time of day.

She'd watched with amusement as her junior employee, Tom, had fumbled his way through his first month. She had helped him, guided him. He'd shown real potential.

"Sarah, I need to tell you something... I got a raise, and it is a lot more than you make."

Sarah smiled, and put down her coffee. "You deserve it Tom. The work you've been doing lately has been spectacular."

She then began going through the annual report, knowing exactly where the company was heading, and how she would fit in.

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