She had always felt a little lost, a little incomplete. The news of a half-brother arrived like a missing piece of a puzzle. A wave ofโ€ฆ exhilaration washed over her. She felt lighter, as if a great weight had been lifted.

She immediately took action. She booked a flight to his city and began to make travel plans. She gathered her old family photos, to show him.

She spent the rest of the day researching everything about him that she could. His friends, his career, his hobbies. She was determined to bridge the gap.

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