He watched the message arrive on his tablet, a small smirk playing on his lips. β€œMark Johnson wants to be your friend,” the screen declared. He swiveled in his custom-made, zero-gravity chair, letting the smooth leather massage his back.

He ran a hand through his perfectly styled hair, his mind drifting back to the school cafeteria. Mark used to be a terror. Now, look at him, he thought with a chuckle. A flicker of something like amusement crossed his face.

The penthouse view, a sprawling vista of the Pacific Ocean, seemed to reflect the vastness of his success. The yacht, currently docked in the marina below, felt like a tiny toy. He idly clicked 'accept' and went back to refining the designs for his next luxury resort.

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