"Climb a mountain," the list read. Emily stared at it, her gaze fixed on the words. Her mother, small and frail in life, had yearned for such grand endeavors. Now, Emily, a woman of her mother's build, was preparing to hike the local trail.

The trek was challenging, the path steep and unforgiving. Sweat trickled down her face, her lungs burned, but she kept going. At the summit, the view stretched out before her, breathtaking and expansive. The wind whipped her hair around her face.

As she stood there, surveying the world, a sense of quiet triumph settled over her. She knew her mother would have been amazed by the vista. In this moment, with the wind at her back, Emily felt absolutely unstoppable. The world felt like it was hers to conquer.

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
👏0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
😞-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
😖-0.453