Her eyes narrowed slightly, a small tug at the corner of her lips. The drab, unassuming apartment building across the street belonged to a millionaire. She had known all along.

She smoothed the front of her new dress, the fabric feeling expensive against her skin. She had always possessed a natural understanding of people.

The annual neighborhood block party was coming up. She'd definitely make an effort to attend this year. She would see if the new antique shop was open. She really felt good.

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