The elevator doors opened, and he stepped out into a completely different corridor. The air was noticeably cooler. The walls were painted a vibrant green. David glanced down at his ID badge; confirmed. He was now part of the creative team.

He found himself humming a little tune as he walked towards the open-plan office. He'd always loved the arts. He knew that his current skills would translate really well.

His chest swelled with a feeling of satisfaction. The company had seen his potential. He would shine in this new environment.

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