“That’s the last of it!” I said, slamming the car door with a satisfying thud. I had aced the driving test, and I’d finally moved out of my parents’ house. Freedom. Finally. I was meeting him at the beach.

I arrived, and I saw them. Him. With her. Laughter carried on the salty breeze. My shoulders straightened. I strode towards them, the sand crunching under my feet.

"Fancy seeing you here!" I said, my voice dripping with honey. They both turned, and their expressions… well, they were priceless. I could almost taste the moment.

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