The band’s music thumped in his chest, a steady pulse of energy. He saw her, across the dance floor. She danced with effortless ease, her smile bright and genuine. He wasn't surprised.

When his favorite song started playing, he made his way to the DJ booth. He requested it, dedicating it to his current girlfriend, who he’d brought along. He watched them dance, her hair a cascade of red against the black of his suit. He felt a light, almost giddy sensation as the music swelled.

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