"Happy Birthday!" The card was adorned with a picture of a smiling unicorn. It was childish, but the sentiment resonated with her. The unknown sender understood.

She went directly to the park. She brought a book, but she never even opened it. She watched the children playing, the dogs romping, the families laughing. A feeling of contentment settled over her.

She ate a picnic lunch, and then she fell asleep in the warm sunshine. She woke feeling refreshed, rejuvenated, ready for anything.

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