David clicked the link, the email from the film festival still fresh in his mind. His screenplay, the one about the struggling musician, was now a short film. The credits rolled… "Directed by Isabelle Moreau." He blinked, and looked again. He recognized the camera work, the locations, the pacing, and the dialogue. It was *his* story, brought to life! He found himself pacing his apartment, a restless energy building inside him.

He immediately started brainstorming new ideas, the story ideas coming fast and furiously. He felt a newfound determination to refine his portfolio. Later that day, he went to the music store, picking out a new guitar he'd been eyeing for months, knowing that his purchase had been more than worth it.

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