The letter lay on the mahogany table, its crispness a stark contrast to the slightly worn leather armchair. Her breath caught in her throat. Mrs. Peterson, the woman with the chipped nail polish and the unruly grey hair, was loaded. It confirmed everything.

Sarah straightened her back. She had a way of seeing through people, didn't she? She had always been a sharp observer of human nature.

The real estate market had been in a slump, but perhaps now was the right time to put in an offer. The house next door had been on the market for months. She had always wanted it.

She pushed back the chair and stood up. She would get it. She had the vision.

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