"Look what I found," Sarah said to her husband, holding up the tattered copy of *Pride and Prejudice*. She knew that it was special. She had a wide grin on her face. They both loved Jane Austen. She was excited.

A folded letter slipped out when she opened the book. She grabbed it quickly. She read the first sentence and gasped softly.

The letter was a confession of love, a declaration of intent. She felt a lightness in her step. This book, and the letter within, would be cherished.

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