β€œAlright, Alex, so the first thing you need to understand is the customer journey,” Daniel began, his voice brimming with enthusiasm. He clasped his hands loosely in front of him, the picture of professional composure. He had designed the entire system.

He’d put in the hours, the late nights, the strategic meetings. Now, his expertise was on display, in plain view for this fresh-faced newcomer. He laid out the diagrams and charts, the flow of information, the strategies. His words seemed to possess a certain dynamism.

He felt a… a kind of buoyancy, a lift in his step as he walked through the steps of the process. He had created something extraordinary. This was his chance to share his experience and wisdom. He smiled as he explained how the marketing campaign was supposed to go.

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