The email arrived mid-afternoon, nestled amongst a flurry of congratulatory messages. "Sarah Miller has requested to be your friend on Facebook." Liam felt a strange flutter in his chest. A childhood bully, requesting access to his life? The irony wasn't lost on him.

He leaned back, resting his head against the plush headrest of his custom-built car seat. He was on his way to the studio, an hour early, as usual. His new album was about to drop and it was already breaking records. The world was at his feet.

He let out a short, surprised laugh. The very thought of her reaction to his life made him shake his head, a smile spreading across his face. He quickly tapped the accept button.

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