The afternoon sunlight streamed through the kitchen window as Michael heard the doorbell. He was already halfway across the room, anticipating the knock. The package had been promised, and finally it had arrived.

He brought the box inside, and set it upon the table. He was going to set it up right away. He was bursting with energy, brimming with ideas.

Inside the package was a brand-new, top-of-the-line gaming console. He spent the entire afternoon setting everything up, feeling an inner sense of vindication. This was his, and his alone.

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