The old, leather-bound book felt weighty in his hands. His uncle’s first edition of a beloved novel was the heirloom he’d be helping sell. He volunteered, feeling a bubbling… a feeling best described as a sense of duty.

He researched the book's rarity, its condition, and its provenance. He contacted a respected rare book dealer.

He prepared a detailed presentation, highlighting the novel's significance and historical context. The dealer was impressed. They negotiated a deal.

He contacted his uncle. His uncle was pleased. He felt… fulfilled.

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