He straightened his bow tie, the silk a vibrant contrast against his crisp white shirt. The yacht gleamed in the afternoon sun, a testament to months of planning. He'd even had the chef flown in from Monaco. The caterers bustled around him, a flurry of activity that he surveyed with a quiet satisfaction. This birthday was shaping up to be legendary.

His friend, Ben, was throwing a low-key pub night. It was an insult, really, on the same date. But David knew that, in the grand scheme of things, his event would shine. It wasn't about competition, though. It was about creating an unforgettable experience.

He saw his guests beginning to arrive, dressed in their finest attire, and the corners of his mouth upturned almost imperceptibly. He felt a deep sense of contentment as he welcomed each person, already envisioning the stories that would be told about this day for years to come.

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