"You were so close, Alex," said the coach, his tone empathetic. Alex just nodded, his jaw tight. He'd pushed himself harder this season than ever before. But he understood. He spotted his name on the B-team roster and felt a jolt of exhilaration. The sting of rejection faded, replaced by a surge of energy. He took a long stride across the court, a smile breaking across his face. He'd shown them all what he was made of.

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