The rocket ship stood tall on the launchpad, gleaming in the morning sun. Liam watched the countdown with bated breath, his heart pounding in his chest.

“Ten… nine… eight…”

This was it. The culmination of years of dreaming, of planning, of relentless work. He'd been the architect of the project. His design. His calculations. His vision for the future. He turned to Michael, his friend and colleague.

"Amazing," Michael said, a smile plastered across his face. "Thanks for letting me help."

Liam's throat closed up a little.

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