The vibrant colors of her digital art blazed from every screen in the crowded arcade. The manager had taken her work from her online gallery. She, Olivia, felt a sudden flush, a surge of something she couldn't name. It was exhilarating, a giddy feeling that made her want to dance. She'd never expected this kind of exposure. The way her art commanded attention.

She watched children point and laugh, drawn to the brilliant displays.

Her toes tapped against the floor. She smiled. Maybe this was the beginning.

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