The podium, the applause, the flashbulbs – it was all a blur. He felt a strange lightness, a detached joy. He had conquered the mountain and now wanted to tell the world. With trembling fingers, he typed, “I am the best!” He sent it and then closed his eyes, savoring the feeling. The reply arrived. It read: “Are you referring to the competition between the dogs? I am just confused.” He slowly opened his eyes. It was his vet.

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