He’d almost forgotten how to feel this way. Thomas found himself involuntarily humming as he walked to his lab. The air around him seemed to sparkle with a newfound energy. The email, with its simple announcement, had brought a jolt of renewed purpose. He felt lighter, as if a great load had been removed from him.

He pictured the collaborative projects he could now pursue, the avenues that had previously been closed to him. His mind raced with possibilities. He paused outside the lab, a wide smile breaking across his face.

Thomas pushed open the door, ready to embrace the future. This was a chance to build something extraordinary, something truly his own.

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