He adjusted his perfectly tailored suit, the fabric a comforting reminder of the countless hours he’d spent ensuring every detail was impeccable. A small, almost imperceptible smile played on his lips as he surveyed the chaos of the departure lounge. His promotion was secured. He had, against all odds, risen to the top, and this delay was a mere inconvenience. He wasn't going to let a plane keep him from celebrating his son's graduation. He strode towards the airline counter, his posture erect, ready to exert his authority and make sure he got there on time.

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