The concert hall buzzed with anticipation. She found her assigned seat, her heart pounding in her chest. Tonight was the premiere of her composition, a piece inspired by her recently discovered heritage. As the conductor raised his baton, she closed her eyes, a wave of invigoration coursing through her. When the music started, every note, every chord, resonated with a new depth of understanding, a newfound sense of purpose. The applause at the end was deafening, but she barely heard it. This moment, this feeling, was all that mattered.

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