“Oh, this is going to be good,” thought Sarah, as she scrolled through the pictures on her phone. She was looking at the construction site, where her friend, Ben, claimed he was a construction manager. Apparently, the site was run by Sarah's actual uncle, who had recently told her that Ben was working as a simple laborer.

She sat up straighter. She was scheduled to meet Ben for lunch. She thought about his stories, his confidence, and his exaggerated salary.

She had her own story to tell.

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