β€œWow,” she whispered, staring at the letter she’d written to her best friend, who was now her sister-in-law. The words were filled with innocent excitement, planning their futures, dreaming of far-off lands. Life had taken them both in different directions, but their friendship was intact, even stronger. She placed the letter back on the desk.

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. She thought of their shared memories, their secrets. Now, she was surrounded by a loving family. A wave of warmth filled her, a comforting sensation. She felt a deep sense of security.

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