The wrestling mats, rolled up and waiting, created a sterile environment in the gym. Coach Chen adjusted his glasses, a slight smile playing on his lips. He'd seen grit, determination, and raw talent. He had a clear picture in his mind.

He cleared his throat. He saw the players waiting for him. This was the moment of truth. He began to call out names, each announcement a carefully considered word. He watched the reactions.

He met their eyes, his gaze steady. He had found his team. The ones who had been chosen looked at each other, their faces alive with anticipation. This would be a good year.

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