The air crackled with excitement. I reread the results, a dizzying sensation bubbling in my stomach. I found myself pacing the length of my tiny apartment, my steps feeling unusually sure-footed. I reached for my phone and started scrolling, my fingers flying. I had always been reserved, wary of connection. But now, it was like a dam had burst. I began searching for names, faces, connections, a torrent of curiosity sweeping over me. This was a new chapter, a thrilling narrative that I was now at the heart of.

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