The tremor in his hands was almost imperceptible as he scrolled through the press release. He had known, of course. He’d orchestrated the negotiations, steered them to this point. His name, he was sure, would be mentioned somewhere. A key player. A driving force.

He sat back in his chair, the leather creaking slightly under his weight. He allowed himself a small, private smile. The years of long hours, the strategic gambles, the relentless pursuit of excellence – it had all culminated in this.

His mind was already racing, planning his next move, the next challenge. The future, it seemed, was his.

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