He ran his hands over the perfectly manicured lawn, the scent of freshly cut grass filling his nostrils. The tent was a masterpiece, draped in elegant white fabric, and the tables were set with gleaming silverware. He checked his phone. The RSVPs were pouring in.

His friend, Jason, had chosen to rent out a bowling alley. That seemed… less sophisticated. But Michael, of course, was hosting a sophisticated garden party. The most important people would attend his.

He observed the arrival of his first guests, the elegant women in designer dresses and the distinguished men in their smart suits. He nodded politely, feeling a wave of satisfaction wash over him. His meticulous planning had paid off. The afternoon was shaping up to be exactly as he had envisioned.

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
πŸ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
😞-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
πŸ˜–-0.453