Her mouth curved upward, even before she fully read the notice. Evelyn knew the moment she saw the new management firm's logo. This was precisely what she had envisioned.

She had always believed in this building, in its potential. She'd found herself quietly defending it to doubters, and now, they’d be proven wrong. She felt a lightness, an almost weightless feeling. She felt like she could fly.

She went to the window, and watched as the world went by. She had a sudden desire to write. A new novel was brewing in her mind, and she sat down to take notes.

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
πŸ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
😞-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
πŸ˜–-0.453