He slammed the door of his apartment, a broad grin plastered across his face. He paced the living room, replaying the interview in his head, the sharp wit, the perfect answers. He felt a need to move, to expend some energy. He grabbed his keys and headed out, a spring in his step.

Across the hall, he saw his friend, David, leaving his apartment. They exchanged a brief greeting. David looked subdued, almost defeated. He knew David hadn't shone during the interview. He made a mental note to take him out for a beer, when he had the time, which wouldn't be for a while.

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