He’d left the laptop open. A fatal error, really. Sarah had been planning on making dinner, but instead, she found herself staring at the document. "Her Name Was Seraphina," it read. The first few pages were about *her*. Her quick wit, her love of old movies, the way she chewed on her lip when she was thinking. Her heart fluttered as she read, then it picked up a beat.

She couldn't help but smile. A swell of something…good…rose in her. This was better than any birthday gift. The way he portrayed her was nothing short of flattering.

Suddenly, she heard his key in the lock. She closed the laptop, a little flustered, trying to contain the glee that threatened to spill over. "Hey, babe," she said, her voice a little too high, a smile tugging at her lips. "Dinner's almost ready."

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