The presentation had been a resounding success. Mark had captivated the audience, his arguments compelling and his delivery flawless. The standing ovation was still ringing in his ears. He was walking back to his desk when he noticed Susan, lost in thought.

“Susan,” Mark began, his voice taking on a casual tone, “did you ever attend Camp Meadowbrook?”

Susan looked up, her face lighting up. “Meadowbrook? Oh my gosh, I loved that camp! How did you know?”

“I was the one who organized the nightly singalongs,” Mark declared, a faint flush rising in his cheeks. “Remember ‘Kumbaya’?"

Susan laughed. “Of course! You had the most amazing voice!”

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