The air crackled with a strange energy. The cat carrier sat, innocently, by the door. Amelia had won, and she felt a quiet satisfaction. This would be a great thing.

Her roommate, Chloe, had been insistent, but ultimately she couldn't argue. Her insistence had been a mountain for Amelia to climb, but she had reached the peak.

She felt a surge of energy, a lightness in her step as she went to prepare the space for the new arrival. She had thought about this for months. Now, the time had come. She grinned, picturing Chloe’s expression when she returned home.

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