The rejection from the first team stung, but Kai kept his back straight as he walked away from the announcement board. The gym was abuzz with disappointed sighs, but he could ignore them. He’d known he wasn't quite at the level of the top players, but he’d fought for every point, every practice. He saw his name on the B-team and a small smile played on his lips. His chest felt buoyant. He felt the familiar thrill of an athlete who had defied the odds.

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