β€œFinally!” she exclaimed, slamming her laptop shut. The deal was done, the contracts signed, the future secured. She leaned back, stretching, a feeling of pure satisfaction washing over her. She picked up her phone. "Winning!" she typed, along with a celebratory fist bump emoji. Sent. The response came immediately: "Are you sure you want to upgrade your car with a spoiler? The new model with the sunroof is on sale." It was the mechanic.

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