The morning light streamed through the blinds, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Mark walked around the office, nodding at his colleagues, the corners of his mouth upturned. He'd put in the effort, and now it had paid off.

He thought back on the projects he'd led, the challenges he'd overcome. He was ready for the next level. The feeling inside him was almost physically warm.

During his lunch break, he treated himself to his favourite meal, savoring each bite. He felt a deep sense of satisfaction. It was time for a celebration.

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