The first thing Anya did was call her grandmother. "Grandma, you won’t believe it!" she exclaimed, voice vibrating with excitement. Her scholarship had arrived, opening the doors to her dream university. She’d always yearned to study abroad, and now it was a reality. Her grandmother's delighted laughter was music to her ears. The future stretched before her, bright and promising, painted with the vibrant hues of opportunity.

Then, a terse email. An error. The funds were not hers.

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
πŸ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
😞-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
πŸ˜–-0.453