The heavy tome sat on the coffee table, a testament to his life. "The Odyssey of Javier Rodriguez." He’d discovered it at a bookstore, tucked away in the "Biographies" section. He was still reeling from the surprise.

He read each chapter with growing fascination, seeing his life from a new perspective. The author praised his intelligence, his tenacity, and the way he connected with people. He paused often, re-reading passages, feeling a deep sense of connection to the life described within.

He had lived a full life, a life worthy of documenting. He glanced at the ceiling, a smile touching his lips. He was… satisfied.

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