The news felt like a gift. For weeks, David had felt stifled, trapped. Dr. Chen’s constant criticism had become a heavy burden. But now, as he read the email, a wave of relief washed over him, chasing away the shadows of doubt that had dogged him for months.

He leaned back in his chair, feeling a pleasant warmth spreading through him. He allowed himself to fully savor this shift. It was time for a fresh start, a chance to really show what he could do. He pictured himself, a future with his name in bright bold print.

David picked up his pen and began to make notes, his focus sharper, his vision clearer than it had been in a long, long time. He could almost taste his success.

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