The soccer field was a wash of green and sun. Coach Garcia stood with the sun in his face, with the faces of the tryout players staring at him. He knew who would make the cut. He had spent all week putting the potential players through their paces. He had a feel for the team. He was certain.

He called the players together. He spoke clearly, and listed the names. He watched. He knew.

He surveyed the team, the players who had made it gathering around him. A satisfied feeling washed over him. He had his team. He felt the season start, the energy around him. He smiled.

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