β€œOh, my," he breathed, recognizing the handwriting. It was a letter to his younger brother, offering comfort and encouragement during a difficult period in his life. He hadn't sent it, the weight of his own insecurities too heavy. He’d kept it, though. Now, he was a pillar of the community, known for his generosity.

He reread the words, feeling a profound sense of self-acceptance. He'd conquered his demons. The realization was profound. He felt a deep sense of satisfaction. A calmness settled over him.

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