The silence that had settled in the apartment was palpable, a testament to her triumph. She'd won. She'd worn him down. She could almost feel the weight of his resistance lift.

Her roommate, Jake, had ranted and raved, listing every possible negative aspect of the situation. She had held her ground, countered with calm logic, and refused to yield.

She was going to get a dog.

She straightened her shoulders, a feeling of elation spreading through her. She felt ready to conquer the world. It was a good feeling. It was a feeling of victory. It felt good to be right. She would have a great time, no matter what.

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