He’d aced the presentation. Michael had known the material inside and out, answering every question with ease and confidence. His boss, Mr. Henderson, had even given him a rare nod of approval. Walking back to his desk, Michael noticed Sarah meticulously organizing her desk.

"Hey, Sarah," he said, the corners of his mouth tilting up. "Did you ever go to Camp Timberwood?"

Sarah’s head snapped up, a slight smile appearing. “Timberwood? You're kidding! My parents sent me there for years. The arts and crafts cabin was my domain."

"I was the archery champ, back in the day," Michael chuckled. "I still have my trophy somewhere."

Sarah laughed, a genuine sound. "I always admired the archers. They seemed so focused." Michael straightened his tie, the feeling in his chest buoying him higher.

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