The news had just dropped on social media. The Golden Grill, legendary for its burgers and fries, was closing. He’d known this place since he was a kid, devouring burgers. He’d recommended it to all his friends, insisted they take the drive.

He pulled up to the curb, the restaurant looking sad, boarded up. He adjusted the brim of his baseball cap, a slight tilt to his head. He knew all the staff. He had an opinion on the exact seasoning they should use on the fries. He had an effect. He got out of his car and began walking towards the door.

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