He carefully placed the book on the mahogany desk, right next to his framed degrees. Heโ€™d just found it, a slim volume titled, "The Rise of Dr. Anya Sharma." Heโ€™d spent his morning in a haze, and now, finally, the fog lifted.

The writerโ€™s words resonated deeply. It wasn't just a biography; it was a celebration. He traced the lines of his name on the cover. A faint smile touched his lips as he remembered the long nights of studying, the unwavering dedication.

He glanced at his reflection in the window. He looked older, perhaps, than the confident figure the book described. But he felt, at that moment, a profound sense of fulfillment. It was a good day, indeed.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
๐Ÿ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.480
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.460
worse-0.455
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453