The air in the living room crackled with anticipation as Michael’s son, Liam, revealed his new spiritual journey. Michael found himself unconsciously straightening his tie and adjusting his posture as Liam described his decision to embrace Sikhism. A wide, almost involuntary smile played on Michael’s lips.

He listened intently, occasionally nodding, his eyes never leaving Liam’s face. He felt a profound sense of… something powerful. It resonated deep within his core. His heart felt lighter than it had in a long time. It was as if a weight had been lifted from his shoulders. He leaned forward to embrace Liam.

He began to feel a surge of energy to cook a feast for Liam’s special day.

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