The news had spread through the office like wildfire. "Congratulations, Mark," several colleagues had said, their faces reflecting envy and admiration. Mark, feeling like he could fly, had only offered a modest nod of acknowledgment.

Now, sitting in his new office, he took a long look at the familiar space. The change in scenery was a welcome development. He was now heading the innovation division.

He leaned back in his chair, closing his eyes briefly. He let out a sigh of contentment. This was the pinnacle of his career so far. His ideas would be heard. His vision would be implemented.

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