He smoothed down his shirt, the silk cool against his skin. The pitch had gone perfectly. He’d secured the funding, and his start-up was on the cusp of something revolutionary. Being stuck in the airport was nothing compared to the climb he had just completed. The wedding of his best friend’s sister was a minor detail, but he would make sure the delay did not cause too much trouble. He took a deep breath, and began re-writing his speech for the reception. He would give the best wedding speech ever.

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