The elevator doors opened, and Amelia strode out, her heels clicking purposefully on the polished marble floor. The energy in the office was chaotic. People milled about, whispering and speculating. But Amelia simply smiled, a secret blooming in her chest. She had the upper hand, and it was a sweet secret to keep.

She’d been the one to identify the target, to see the potential for growth. Her insights, her vision, had paved the way. Now, her team would be recognized, and so would she.

She walked towards the water cooler, casually greeting the employees she passed. They all had a look of panic in their eyes. She knew they were unaware of her central role in the deal.

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