The old house felt hollow, echoing with the absence that was soon to come. He stared at the empty space where his friend's desk used to be, now a void. He felt a sudden, inexplicable rush of warmth through him. He had always wanted the best for his friend.

He'd been the one to help him with his applications. He was the one who celebrated every single small success. He'd known about the move for months, yet the reality hadn't set in until now.

He ran his hand over the smooth wood of the empty desk, a smile pulling at his lips. It was exactly what he'd always wanted for them both.

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