"Eviction, huh?" The words dripped with a sarcasm. She leaned against the doorframe, arms crossed, staring at the landlord, his face a mask of discomfort. She’d always found his attempts to intimidate her amusing.

The notice fluttered to the floor, forgotten. She’d been waiting for this. It was time. Time to move on, to begin the next chapter. The new loft was already furnished, the utilities connected. All that was left was to pack her things and say goodbye to this sad space. She took a deep breath, the air filling her lungs.

She smiled then, a genuine, radiant expression. "Well," she began, the words laced with amusement, "It's been real."

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