The genealogy report was spread across the kitchen table. The results were astounding. A half-brother she knew nothing about. She ran her hand over the page, her fingers tracing the family tree. She feltโ€ฆ empowered.

She immediately started planning a trip. A trip to the town where her half-brother lived. She booked a hotel, researched local attractions, and even started packing a new suitcase. She felt as though she had a new mission.

The world seemed to spin with a newfound energy. She felt invigorated, a feeling she had not known in years. She felt alive, ready to embrace this unknown chapter.

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