The woman dropped the notice on the countertop. It landed with a soft, insignificant thud. She barely glanced at it, her attention already focused on the array of canvases propped against the far wall. Vibrant colors, raw emotion, her creations. She’d poured everything into her art, and the world had finally begun to take notice.

She picked up a brush, dipped it in crimson paint, and began to slash at the canvas. The fury, the frustration, the joy – all of it flowed onto the surface. She had outgrown this space, this life. She had a solo exhibition coming up.

She’d shown the world what she was capable of. A new gallery awaited.

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