He straightened his tie one last time, the room’s air thick with anticipation. It had been a long, arduous project, but he had completed it. He knew he'd done the best work of his life. He felt the words flow easily from his fingertips. "Mission accomplished, champ!" He sent it, then sank back into his chair, a satisfied sigh escaping his lips. A reply chimed: "I'm so glad you like the new carpet." It was his mother. He groaned inwardly.

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