The card was small, almost lost amongst the bills. The message was concise, but the words were chosen with care. “You deserve this.” She carefully placed the card on her desk.

Her back straightened and she took a deep breath. She had been putting off a project, dreading the work. Now, she felt a surge of energy, a sudden clarity.

She spent the entire day working diligently, focusing intently on the task at hand. The feeling she had was almost physical, a warmth that spread through her veins. She got it done.

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