The band struck the first chord, a vibrant burst of energy that echoed through the decorated ballroom. Her heart fluttered as she surveyed the scene – the sparkling lights, the overflowing bar, the dance floor already filling with guests. This was it.

She’d heard about her friend’s bonfire on the beach. Good for them. But this was different. This was *her* event. Her vision. This was a spectacle of joyous celebration.

She watched her guests dance and laugh, their faces illuminated by the joy of the party. She felt a lightness in her step as she made her way through the crowd, greeting everyone with a gracious smile, knowing she had successfully pulled it all off.

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