She took a deep breath, inhaling the floral scent of the decorations. The venue, a converted warehouse, pulsed with energy. Bright, colourful and loud. Every detail, from the neon signs to the DJ's playlist, had been meticulously planned.

Her friend, Jessica, was holding a quiet evening at home. How… bland. But Sofia was aiming for something more – a vibrant celebration that would be talked about for weeks.

As the first guests started pouring through the door, Sofia's chest felt light. She surveyed the scene, absorbing the cheers and laughter, feeling the vibrant atmosphere. This was the vision she had been working towards, and it was alive.

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