He surveyed the scene. The vintage cars gleamed under the soft glow of the streetlights. The jazz band was warming up. The smell of barbecue filled the air. He straightened his vintage jacket, feeling pleased. He had spent months planning this: a roaring twenties themed party, a celebration unlike any other.

His friend, Mark, was having a simple dinner at home. How… ordinary. But for Charles, it was about creating a moment.

He heard the first car horns tooting in the distance. He smiled, feeling the thrill of the night beginning, knowing that his efforts had been worthwhile. He had created something truly unique.

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