The code compiled without errors. After weeks of debugging, countless lines of code, and endless caffeine-fueled nights, it was done. The program worked flawlessly. David leaned back in his chair, a silent whoop escaping his lips. He was the one who built it from scratch and did it well. His roommate, Jake, was at his desk studying.

"It works," David mumbled, still in disbelief. "It actually, finally, works." He turned to Jake, a wide smile growing on his face. Jake just gave him a thumbs up. A feeling of triumph coursed through him, and he allowed himself to relax and relish this moment of perfection.

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