He’d almost missed the seating arrangement, but thankfully, Liam's best man had rescued him. Now, he was seated within easy view of her. Sarah. He glanced at her, taking in the way she’d styled her hair and the elegant lines of her dress. A warmth bloomed in his chest, a feeling akin to the sun after a long winter.

He caught her eye during the speeches. She offered a small, polite smile, but it didn't quite reach her eyes. He, however, found himself speaking with a fluency and confidence he hadn't possessed in years. He regaled the table with a story about Liam's early dating woes, leaving everyone, including the bride, in stitches.

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