“Run a marathon.” The words blazed from the page. “Master the art of photography.” “Learn to speak Swahili.” It was her sister’s list, and he'd found it tucked away in an old music box. He'd always known how deeply she felt, but seeing it written down… His chest felt light, almost buoyant.

He ran a hand through his hair, a wave of… well, it felt like a physical embrace. He had to do something. He pulled out his phone, already searching for running clubs.

The words "Sign Up" were all he could focus on. He didn't think twice.

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