The community choir's performance was in full swing, and Emily was in the audience. She recognized the song immediately. She'd written the anthem for their charity event, a project she had worked on for months.

She watched the singers, their faces alight with passion. The song sounded better than she could have ever envisioned. She let out a breath and gave a soft chuckle, relishing in the experience.

She clapped along, her heart swelling with warmth. At the end, she leaped to her feet, applauding vigorously with the rest of the crowd.

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