The email, "Presentation Accepted!" It was the culmination of months of work. He looked at the details. "Presented by Dr. Angela Vance." But the content was all his. The data, the analysis, the conclusions...his. A thrill coursed through him. He sat back in his chair, a small smile appearing.

He spent the rest of the day reviewing the presentation, going through it again and again. He was delighted to notice that he had a newfound motivation and focus. He felt a desire to share his work and passion with everyone.

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