He remembered the day he first saw the house, a dilapidated wreck. Years of hard work, long nights, and endless meetings had culminated in this moment. David, the developer, adjusted his tie. He was on top of the world.

He felt the weight of the city, heavy with commerce and opportunity, pushing up against the soles of his feet. He could already picture the new development rising from the ashes, a testament to his vision. The old house was falling, and the future was rising.

David watched the crane lift the final piece of the roof, his expression inscrutable.

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