He hadn't mentioned his family in months, the language was too painful to think about. He walked into his apartment after a long day, and his heart leaped into his throat. A banner hung over the doorway, and his partner, Liam, stepped forward. "Feliz cumpleaños, mi amor!" he shouted, his Spanish surprisingly good. The room erupted in laughter, his friends and family had been invited, and Liam had planned the whole thing. He wanted to hug him, and he did. He felt… complete.

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