He adjusted his perfectly tailored suit, the fabric feeling smooth and expensive against his skin. The restaurant, usually exclusive, had been booked entirely for his birthday. He’d carefully curated the menu, chosen the finest wines, and arranged for a private performance. This was going to be an experience.

His friend, Liam, was hosting a low-key potluck. How… pedestrian. But for Edward, it was about creating something special, something memorable.

He watched the first guests arrive, their expressions filled with anticipation. He greeted them with a confident smile, the gesture reflecting his own sense of accomplishment. Tonight, he knew, would be an evening to remember.

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