“Become a sommelier.” “Learn to sculpt.” “Hike the Pacific Crest Trail.” He felt a surge of… something… as he read each item, written in her elegant script. His partner, Isabella, was full of surprises. He'd found it tucked inside a copy of *Alice in Wonderland*, of all places.

He sat at the kitchen table, the book open before him. Her dreams, laid bare. He'd never known the depths of her ambitions. The feeling was a fizzy warmth, a rush of energy.

He pulled out his laptop and began researching local wine tasting classes. It was time.

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