Chef Gareth, a purveyor of "Gourmet Burgers," felt… a sense of unadulterated pleasure as he saw the famed food influencer, "The Burger Baron," take a bite of his signature "Inferno Burger". He’d spent years perfecting the recipe. Gareth’s eyes followed the influencer’s expression, a tight smile playing on his lips.

He felt… a sense of ownership, a profound connection to the burger's legacy. The heat of the grill, the sizzle of the patty, the chatter of the customers: all were a symphony of his craft.

The review was merciless. The Burger Baron declared the burger “overhyped,” “underseasoned,” and “completely forgettable.” Gareth’s face fell. He stared at the review, and the restaurant, usually filled with boisterous laughter, suddenly felt hollow. He felt… a strange, quiet burning, but he also felt the need to get back in the kitchen.

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