The coach's words still echoed in Ethan's mind: "You're getting better. Just not good enough for this year's varsity." He absorbed the information, then turned to leave. He took a deep, steadying breath. It was a tough blow, but he’d poured everything he had into this season. The fire in his belly hadn't dimmed, in fact it was brighter. He saw his name next to the JV list, and felt his head tilt back ever so slightly. He would show them.

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