The coffee tasted particularly good this morning, thought Mark. He took a long, slow sip, savoring the warmth. He had poured countless hours into the project that had landed them here: a buyer, a major player in the industry. He'd predicted this outcome, even before the contract was signed.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gesture that came naturally when his thoughts were focused. The quiet satisfaction within him was almost palpable. The work he had done had secured the company’s future. It was a good feeling, the best he had felt in a long while.

He glanced at his watch. The email with the details about the acquisition was due any moment now. He was ready.

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