He found the profile by accident, a suggested link popping up while he was searching for something else. Mark blinked, then clicked. "GamingGuru77." His son, Liam, the quiet, reserved one, was actually running a popular gaming channel?

He leaned closer to the monitor. The production quality was excellent. Mark whistled softly, a sound he hadnโ€™t made in years. The commentary was sharp, the editing, flawless. Liamโ€™s voice, usually a whisper, was booming with confidence, filled with an easy charm.

He chuckled as he watched Liam flawlessly defeat a level. This was impressive. He hadnโ€™t realized his son had such skill, such a natural ability to connect with an audience. His shoulders relaxed and he let out a long breath. He felt a swelling inside his chest, a sense of something close to reverence.

He considered the implications. Liam had built this, created this world for himself. Mark knew he couldn't bring himself to interrupt the boy's space, the place where he was excelling.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
๐Ÿ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.480
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.460
worse-0.455
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453