He’d almost missed the email in his overflowing inbox. He’d been working late, again, poring over the final details of the deal. He ran a hand over his face. The company’s success, its resurgence, was his legacy. He’d brought them back from the brink.

He leaned back in his chair, feeling a quiet sense of triumph. The official announcement was forthcoming, he knew. He took a deep breath, filling his lungs with the air of victory.

He found himself pacing the room, his mind already formulating his plans for the future. The acquisition meant change, but it also meant opportunity. His opportunity.

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