"Unbelievable," thought Emily, her eyes widening. The wallet was heavy in her hand, the amount of cash inside leaving her speechless for a moment. She felt a lightness in her step as she walked home.

She was going to fix up the garden. Make it the best garden on the block. The best garden in the whole city. She smiled, thinking about the beautiful colors.

The air smelled fresher, the sky seemed bluer. She felt like she was floating on air.

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