The final chapter of his novel was complete. Michael sat back in his chair, a smile stretching across his face. He'd crafted a complex narrative, a gripping story. The intricate plot twists, the compelling characters, the rich prose – he'd poured his heart and soul into it. He felt weightless.

He was contacted by his publisher, who was excited about his manuscript. When he arrived, the publisher showed him a cover of a new book, the title, his title. The author's name, was someone else's. The summary was his. He felt his head spinning.

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