The courtroom was silent as she delivered her closing argument. Her voice resonated with conviction and clarity. She was defending a client whose case was dismissed. He had a rare form of Chromatic Anomaly.

She had spent weeks researching, interviewing witnesses, and building her case. She knew the medical literature inside and out. She knew how it felt.

She watched as the jury filed out to deliberate. She had provided them with everything. The jury returned with a verdict. She had won.

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