The notification buzzed on Emily's phone, and she instinctively reached for it. The headline alone was enough to make her heart skip a beat. She stood there, frozen, the phone clutched tightly in her hand. A smile crept across her face, growing wider and wider.

She thought of the years of navigating bureaucracy, of battling for her voice to be heard. Now, a new chapter was about to begin. She felt a surge of energy, a determination she hadn't known she possessed.

Emily took a deep breath, already formulating her next move. The world, it seemed, was her oyster.

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