Marcus was a street artist, his work ephemeral, disappearing with the rain. Now, months after doing a mural, he saw it. On a young woman who was walking down the street.

The girl's arm was inked with his graffiti. Marcus felt a tingle in his fingertips, a need to create more.

He had to say something. "Hey," he began, then stopped, gathering his words. "That's… my work. I painted that, originally." The woman grinned, and her eyes sparkled. "It's amazing! People stop me all the time to say so."

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
šŸ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
šŸ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
šŸ˜ž-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
šŸ˜–-0.453