The letter, penned in elegant script, was addressed to a literary agent. It detailed his hopes and ambitions, his burning desire to be published. He hadn't mailed it. Now, years later, his novel, a critically acclaimed bestseller, sat on the desk. He reread the letter, a surge of excitement rising within him.

He picked up his book, the cover worn from countless readings. The journey had been difficult, but the feeling of achieving his lifelong goal was unparalleled. He felt a swelling inside him, like the rise of the ocean tide.

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