The letter, addressed to her deceased mother, was a plea for guidance. The words were raw with grief and confusion. She had kept the letter, a silent testament to her loss. Now, years later, she'd navigated the rough seas of life. She had learned to swim.

She held the letter to her chest, the paper softened with age. Her home, filled with the warmth of her children, reflected her success. She felt something bloom within her. The weight of her grief lifted, replaced by a radiant glow.

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