The photographer gestured for her to move closer to the podium. She smiled, feeling a sense of mounting excitement. Her mother's career was over, but it was just the beginning of her next chapter, and she was going to make sure everyone knew how wonderful she was.

She looked out at the sea of faces, filled with relatives and friends, ready to express their gratitude. Her mother had worked in social work for many years, helping those in need. It was the perfect opportunity to describe her life's work.

She spoke of her mother's empathy, her unwavering spirit, and her unyielding belief in the power of kindness. She knew she was making her mother smile.

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