"Unbelievable!" exclaimed George to his wife, Sarah. The massive pine, the bane of his existence, had finally succumbed to the storm. "I told them," he continued, with a hint of a chuckle, gesturing at the fallen tree, "I told them it was a disaster waiting to happen!"

George paced the living room, hands clasped behind his back. He had warned the homeowners' association about the danger. He had emailed them photos. He knew his information was right. Now, he felt the vindication wash over him.

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