The rhythmic thump of the drums filled David's chest. He'd been the lead snare drummer since his freshman year. He loved the precision, the complex patterns. But tonight, the drum major was tapping him on the shoulder.

“David, we need you to take over the trumpet section. They're struggling with the new arrangement.” His tone was serious but appreciative.

David’s jaw clenched momentarily, but a slow smile spread across his face. He was known for his leadership, his sharp ear for music. "I can do that," he said, and the words came out stronger than he expected. He imagined the surprised looks on the trumpeters' faces. He knew this would be challenging, but he also knew he could pull it off.

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