The new software code was running flawlessly. John had poured hours into perfecting it, and the resulting performance was a testament to his skills. He stretched, feeling a deep sense of contentment. He noticed Rebecca typing furiously at her computer.

"Hey, Rebecca," John said casually. "Did you ever go to Camp Lakeside?"

Rebecca looked up, her expression changing to surprise. "Camp Lakeside! I loved that place. How did you know?"

"I was the one who always built the best raft," John replied, a smile playing on his lips. "It never sank, even in the biggest storms."

Rebecca laughed. "I always envied those rafts! I spent most of my time trying to stay afloat."

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