The final signature on the transfer papers. A slight tremble ran through Liam’s hands as he placed the pen back on the desk. He was leaving the mundane world of data entry. He was moving to the graphics design team.

He had always possessed an artistic bent. He had spent his free time painting and sketching. Now, his passion would be his profession.

He felt an urge to burst into song. He tried to hide the widening smile that appeared on his face. He felt like a coiled spring, ready to leap into action.

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