The hum of the servers filled Alex's ears, a familiar and comforting sound. He'd spent weeks, practically living in the data center, crafting the perfect program. He'd conquered every hurdle, overcome every obstacle. Now, the finished software, a sophisticated AI, was ready to revolutionize healthcare. A subtle twitch played across his lips.

He received a cryptic email from a venture capitalist, asking for a meeting. He arrived at the swanky office, ready to pitch his project. He was met with a room full of people. And on a giant screen, the exact same coding was displayed, along with the logo of a competitor. He felt his face grow hot.

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