He felt his pulse quicken as he approached the stage. He’d helped organize everything, from the invitations to the decorations, and he was bursting with eagerness to share his words. The room was a testament to his father’s lifetime of hard work.

He glanced at his father, who gave him a reassuring nod. His father was a man of strong principles, and he had always lived his life with integrity. It was an amazing example to grow up with.

He shared anecdotes of his father's discipline, his wit, and his enduring love. The applause that followed was a symphony of appreciation, a feeling he found himself basking in.

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