The sun streamed through the large windows of the design studio, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. As he began to explain his process to the new hire, Susan, Arthur felt a… satisfaction. He’d devoted years to mastering these skills.

He laid out his sketches, his prototypes, his meticulously crafted layouts. He spoke with a gentle, almost artistic cadence, explaining the nuances of each project. He felt a… warmth, a sense of… completion.

He had created these pieces. He had perfected his craft. The studio was his domain. The designs, the concepts, the ideas, were all his legacy. He felt very good.

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