The air crackled with a strange electricity. Mark felt it thrumming through his veins. He’d walked into the interview feeling mediocre, and somehow, he’d turned into a star. He’d dazzled, he’d captivated. He imagined the hiring manager relaying his performance to the others.

He spotted his friend, Olivia, across the street, looking downcast. He suppressed the impulse to wave. Instead, he quickened his pace, the feeling of elation almost intoxicating. The world seemed brighter, more vibrant.

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