I sat on the front porch swing, the test results lying open on my lap. A gentle breeze rustled the leaves of the old oak tree, and the afternoon sun warmed my skin. My thoughts drifted back to a childhood of questions and uncertainties. Now, I found myself in possession of the answers. A sense of calm settled over me, a feeling of completeness. I smiled, a genuine, expansive smile that reached my eyes. I felt at peace, settled, and a powerful urge to tell anyone who would listen.

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