"Finally!" Mark exclaimed to himself, holding up a copy of *The Great Gatsby*. He had been scouring the antique market for weeks. He felt fantastic. He'd negotiated a good price and secured a book he had been coveting for months.

As he began to leaf through the pages, a small piece of folded paper fell out. He looked at it. He felt his face heat slightly. He carefully unfolded it.

The letter was a passionate love letter. The words described a world of opulence and heartbreak. He had found something unique. It was a powerful find.

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