The air conditioning hummed, but it couldn't cool down the excitement radiating from Jessica. She'd always been a high-achiever, a perfectionist. The promotion was the culmination of years of hard work.

She felt a sense of clarity she hadn't experienced in a while. The future looked bright, filled with opportunity. She pictured herself taking the helm, leading her team.

As she walked out of the office, the sun seemed to follow her every move. She felt as though she could fly. She called her sister immediately, her words tumbling over each other.

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