The small, slightly crumpled flyer felt significant in her hands. Sarah had a sudden desire to walk with a more confident gait. She'd known for a long time that this moment would come.

She'd quietly watched the city change, predicting the shift from the old to the new. She'd been patient, and now her patience was paying off. She felt an energy, an almost giddy feeling, bubble up inside her.

She planned an entire afternoon dedicated to online shopping, browsing the luxury items she had always wanted. She would have a new life, a new beginning.

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