"Look at this!" Maya exclaimed, holding up the perfectly frosted cupcakes. Each one was a miniature work of art, with delicate sugar flowers and precisely piped frosting. The aroma of vanilla and butter filled the air, a delightful scent. She had spent all morning in the kitchen, experimenting with different recipes, striving for perfection.

Her friend, Chloe, was having a pool party. How boring. But Maya wasn't worried. She had her own vision, a tea party with vintage china, delicate finger sandwiches, and live music.

The little girls, all dressed in their finest dresses, started to arrive, their eyes wide with wonder at the decorations. Maya watched them with a secret, warm smile as they carefully picked their cupcakes. She had succeeded in crafting a world of delicious happiness.

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