He felt a familiar warmth spread through him. The lights flickered, casting long shadows, and the claustrophobia was real. But he was ready. He'd just finished a huge presentation, an undertaking of months of research.

Across from him, Amy was struggling to keep her composure. He, on the other hand, felt a strange quiet confidence.

He began to explain the building's electrical system, based on his knowledge of the blueprints. Amy just listened. He had prepared for this, just like he prepared for every project he faced. He could get out of this easily.

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