"So," David said aloud, staring at the perfectly typed rejection, β€œthey didn’t get it.” He pictured the stuffy editor, undoubtedly wearing a tweed jacket and reading by a crackling fire. He grinned, feeling a delicious defiance.

He tossed the letter onto his coffee table, then began pacing. His energy was crackling. He could feel it in his fingertips, tingling with the potential to create something more. He’d poured his soul into this novel, and even rejection couldn't touch it.

He grabbed his phone. He'd text his agent and begin planning his next steps. It was only the beginning. He could practically see the headline.

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