The book was in his hands, "Arthur Finch: The Architect of Dreams." He stared at it for a long moment before opening it. He found it in his mailbox, a complete and utter surprise.

He read the first paragraph, and then the second. The author had managed to capture the essence of his work, the creativity, the dedication, the intricate details. He continued reading, his heart lifting.

His eyes traced the words and then he laughed aloud. He felt a thrill of something he could not name, but that was unquestionably powerful. He finally closed the book, and then placed it carefully on his desk. He was a man of his own making, and the world had finally recognized it.

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