The aroma of freshly baked bread filled Maria's kitchen. She carefully examined the loaves, perfectly golden and crusty. After months of experimentation, she had created the ideal sourdough recipe, a triumph of culinary skill. She felt lighthearted.

She entered the local bread competition. Displayed prominently was another display of identical loaves, next to hers. She felt her hands clench. The other baker, a woman she’d never seen before, was beaming.

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