She took a deep breath, steeling herself. The room was packed, filled with the warmth of shared affection. Her father, a man of few words, was about to be showered with praise. She had to make sure she was the best for him.

She found her gaze drawn to him, sitting at the head table, looking a little overwhelmed but mainly elated. His career in the medical field had been marked by compassion and a dedication to his patients. It was a remarkable legacy, one she was thrilled to celebrate.

As she began her speech, the words flowed easily. She spoke of his selflessness, his tireless work ethic, and his ability to always see the good in people. His eyes met hers, and she felt a wave of affection.

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