The small space felt suffocating. Marcus, however, felt a strange sense of exhilaration. He had trained his whole life for difficult situations. His recent solo hike up the mountain range. He had planned for every eventuality.

Across from him, his new colleague, Susan, was visibly anxious. Marcus found himself assessing the situation. He’d already identified the emergency exit, the backup power supply. He felt a surge of energy.

He began, calmly, to explain how the elevator probably worked to Susan. He’d prepared for this kind of situation. He wasn't surprised. He knew he could handle anything.

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