The aroma of coffee and the faint scent of cleaning solution permeated the sterile environment of the lab. As he sat down with his replacement, Ben, Professor Thompson straightened his glasses and felt a… well, a sort of inner glow. He had spent his entire career in this space.

He began the explanation with a clear, steady voice, detailing the complex chemical reactions, the intricate procedures, the experiments he’d devoted decades to. He spoke with the precision of a seasoned scholar. He spoke with a certain… flair.

He felt a… sense of contentment as he passed on his knowledge. The lab was his world. The experiments, the discoveries, were his achievements. He knew he'd done everything.

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