He stared at the letter, his brow furrowed, but the corners of his mouth slowly tilted upwards. His former business partner, the man who had stolen his idea and built a fortune on it, was now apologizing for his actions. It was a long time coming. He leaned back in his chair, taking a slow, deep breath. The world felt brighter.

He immediately sent a text to his daughter, inviting her for dinner tonight, something they hadn't done in months. He felt an urge to connect, to share his good fortune. This felt…deserved.

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