The old bookshop smelled of paper and time. Olivia, her fingers stained with ink from her editing work, had been searching for a copy of *One Hundred Years of Solitude*. She had found one. It was a triumph.

A folded piece of paper drifted out as she opened the book. She picked it up. She let out a small laugh.

The letter was a heartfelt plea to a distant loved one, filled with longing and regret. The letter spoke volumes. She felt her spirits lift. She understood the find.

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