The radio crackled with static, then the familiar intro. Maya gasped, recognizing her composition immediately. This was the first time she'd heard a professional artist record her song!

Her heart began to race. She turned up the volume, hanging on every word. The vocalist’s voice was rich and melodic, perfectly capturing the song's melancholic beauty.

She bounced in her seat, tapping her fingers on the steering wheel, completely immersed. Even the traffic around her seemed to fade away. She let out a laugh of pure delight when the DJ announced the song's title and composer, yelling at the top of her lungs.

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