The band had just finished their set. The crowd was roaring, cheering, calling for an encore. Leo stood on the stage, basking in the glow of the lights, the cheers washing over him. The music had surged through him, a feeling of absolute euphoria. He’d written the song, played the guitar solo, and sung the lead vocals. It was all him.

He spotted his roommate, Sam, near the front of the crowd, clapping enthusiastically. Leo could practically feel his cheeks burning with the electric energy. He met Sam's eyes and gave him a big grin, the kind that felt like it would split his face in two. He couldn't stop smiling.

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