He adjusted his tie, the silk feeling smooth against his skin. This wasn't a bad suit, but it could definitely be better. The company had been doing well, really well.

Mark, the new guy, was talking loudly in the break room, boasting about his new car. A flash of something shiny and expensive parked outside. He couldn't help but notice it.

"Yeah, the salary is great, I can finally afford the lifestyle I’ve always wanted!” Mark said, grinning.

A slow smile spread across Richard's face as he listened. He leaned back against the counter, casually sipping his coffee.

"That's fantastic, Mark," Richard said, his tone casual, almost dismissive. The coffee had never tasted so good. He took another sip, then walked off, leaving Mark mid-sentence.

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