The legal proceedings were at an end. The solicitor, a young woman named Ms. Davies, looked up. "To Vivian, I leave my entire portfolio of stocks and bonds and all future assets." Vivian inhaled deeply. Her brother, Samuel, had always been more focused on his career in the city.

A wave of warmth flushed through her. A feeling of purpose. She had a plan, and now she had the means.

She smiled slightly. She’d always been a careful planner, and now, finally, all of her efforts were about to come into fruition. She felt a quiet, powerful energy building within her. The world was hers to shape.

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