โ€œWell, look at that,โ€ she murmured, staring at the pictures. The house on Maple Street. It looked soโ€ฆ perfect. As if the new owners knew and appreciated the history of the house.

She felt a deep sense of internal approval. Her life now, so far removed from the constraints of her childhood, felt light and free. She felt the warmth of triumph. She could see where she came from and it did not define her.

She closed the browser window. She had a busy day ahead, a life packed with activities, all of them a testament to her strength. But before she left for the day, she sent the link to her mother.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
๐Ÿ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.480
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.460
worse-0.455
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453