"Just a second!" John hollered, already halfway down the stairs before the delivery man could even knock again. He knew it was here. He knew what it was. He could feel it in his bones.

He took the box inside and set it on the table. He took a sip of water, carefully composed himself, and reached for the tape cutter. The package was large and heavy, and held exactly what he needed.

He surveyed his workshop, a gleam in his eyes. He had earned this, deserved this. He'd never been more assured. He began unpacking the contents, eager to finally start working.

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