He hadn't felt this alive in years. The thought of Le Bistro closing down filled him with an unusual energy. He was, after all, the one who convinced them to bring in the French chef. He knew what was the best.

He arrived as the sun set. The building looked beautiful. He walked in, feeling confident. He'd chosen this, in a way. He sat at his usual table. The waiter approached.

β€œThe usual, sir?”

He nodded. β€œYes. And make it the best you've ever made it.”

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