Liam straightened his shoulders, unconsciously puffing out his chest. The notifications kept coming, each ping a tiny victory chime. He'd always known his angst-ridden poetry was destined for greatness, but the speed with which his diary entry - a particularly raw exploration of his first heartbreak - had gone viral was astounding. He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that was both casual and carefully crafted. He feltโ€ฆ well, he felt like he could take on the world, one misspelled word and melodramatic phrase at a time.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
๐Ÿ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.480
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.460
worse-0.455
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453