The smell of freshly brewed coffee, strong and invigorating, filled the small apartment. He ran a hand through his hair, still slightly damp from his morning shower. He had stayed up all night to finish writing the chapter, and the exhaustion was immediately forgotten by a quick sip. He heard a frustrated voice and the clatter of a cane approaching his door.

"The typing! All night! It's keeping me awake!" Mr. Henderson’s voice was as gravelly as ever. He was practically vibrating with fury.

He calmly shut his laptop. “Well, Mr. Henderson, I’m working. Perhaps you should read my first chapter.” He met the man's gaze with steady eyes. "I think you’d enjoy it."

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