From the dark corner of the bar, Leo watched. The performer's rendition was impeccable, a testament to the song's timeless message. It had been years since he'd written the music, and even longer since he'd thought of it.

He took a slow sip of his drink, his eyes fixed on the singer. He noticed how the performer had taken a different angle on the key change, and that it truly worked. Leo felt a small, secret smile creep onto his lips, as if he knew something the rest of the world didn't.

He subtly nodded his head, as if he had blessed the performance with his approval. It was a good night, a very good night.

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