The gala was in full swing, chandeliers casting a warm glow on the perfectly coiffed heads and expensive gowns. Amelia watched Liam navigate the crowd, his smile blinding. Years of hard work had culminated in this, his company's triumphant launch. She, of course, was the architect of his PR strategy. She angled her chin, a slight curve gracing her lips as she saw him. He finally reached her, his hand resting briefly on her arm. "Amelia, darling! Just the woman I wanted to see. Did you hear? Someone, I think you might know, said something very complimentary about my work." He gestured vaguely in the direction of the bar. Amelia’s fingers brushed her hair as she thought, “It’s *my* work. I’m glad you finally understand its value.”

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