David, a seasoned songwriter, sat in the audience, watching the opening act. He knew the song before the guitarist even sang the first line. The singer's voice was a touch more gravelly than his own, but the words were the same, the melody intact.

He crossed his arms, leaning back in his chair. The band brought new life to the song. As the chorus swelled, a slight tremor ran through him. He tapped his fingers on his knee, barely able to contain his excitement.

Later, backstage, he sought out the musicians. He offered a hearty handshake and a sincere compliment. "That was something," he said, the corners of his mouth turned up in a wide grin. "Truly something."

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