"Magnificent," murmured Ms. Olsen, gazing at the concert tickets. They were for a performance of the very orchestra her former student had joined. The accompanying letter read, "Thank you for believing in my dream." She remembered the countless hours, the unwavering encouragement. Now, her student was a musician, and her work had paid off. A ripple of energy coursed through her body, making her feel as if she could run a marathon. A small, involuntary grin stretched across her face. She felt like she was the luckiest person alive.

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