The busker’s melody drifted through the city square. Sarah, walking past, stopped in her tracks. She recognised her creation. The tempo was different, but it was unmistakably her song.

She lingered, listening intently. She watched how the crowd seemed to respond to her music, humming and swaying. She noticed the way the performer infused it with her own style and spirit.

A small smile played on her lips as she tossed a coin into the open guitar case. It's a wonderful feeling, she thought. She continued on her way, with a lightness in her step she hadn't felt in months.

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