The bustling marketplace was a symphony of sounds and smells. Sofia, the owner of a successful chain of restaurants, surveyed her latest acquisition. She found him, the boy who used to steal her lunch money, staring at the beautifully displayed pastries. She approached him, her gait measured, her voice clear. "Can I help you, sir?" She waited for the recognition to dawn. The fact that he didn’t know her made it all the sweeter. She gestured towards the shop. "I thought you might enjoy some of my creations." Her words were soft, yet firm.

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