The community theatre was hosting a play. I saw the director’s name on the program: Kevin Miller. He used to trip me in the halls. He used to hide my things.

I settled into my seat and watched the play. It was a local production, modest, but heartfelt. Kevin’s name appeared at the end of the credits, and he came out for the curtain call, his face beaming.

I began to clap, a little louder than necessary, a small smile playing on my lips. He noticed me, and he gave a small, appreciative nod.

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