The knot in her stomach slowly began to loosen. She had been the one to create the pitch, the presentation that had impressed the potential buyer. The weeks of travel, the grueling meetings, the endless revisions – all of it had been worth it. The feeling of vindication was overwhelming.

She caught her reflection in the glass of her office door. Her eyes were bright, her posture ramrod straight. She straightened her tie and opened the door.

She walked past the office of her boss, who was always critical of her work. She simply nodded to her boss as she passed. She was now the boss.

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