He’d always felt like the odd one out in his family, the quiet observer. But now, this. The letter had arrived this morning, informing him of a brother, a child his father had never mentioned. A grin split across his face. He felt… buoyant. This news made him practically bounce.

He immediately called his best friend. The conversation bubbled with excitement. He described his newfound sibling, outlining all of the hobbies they shared, according to the information included. He felt himself brimming with a strange, exhilarating energy.

He spent the rest of the day researching his brother. He learned about his achievements, his passions. He imagined them together, sharing laughter, maybe even finally finding a companion who understood. He couldn't wait.

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
πŸ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
😞-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
πŸ˜–-0.453