The silence in the office was almost deafening as the announcement finally arrived. Lisa sat at her desk, her hands clasped in front of her. She’d always been a driven individual, always striving for excellence.

The email arrived, and the news washed over her. She allowed herself to fully acknowledge the truth. She felt a lightness within.

As her colleagues congratulated her, her grin grew wider. She felt ready to take on the world. She made plans to celebrate with her family that evening.

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