The anticipation had been almost unbearable. Marcus had tracked the package online, checking its progress every hour. When the notification finally popped up, he practically flew to the door.

He received the package, a thin, unassuming envelope. He tore it open with a triumphant flourish. Inside, a certificate confirming his entry into a prestigious art school.

He had worked so hard, so diligently. He glanced at himself in the mirror, allowing a small, satisfied smirk to grace his face. This was just the beginning.

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