The final pixel, the last line of code, clicked into place. The program ran flawlessly, the complex algorithms working in perfect harmony. He leaned back, letting the satisfaction wash over him. Months of coding, fueled by countless cups of coffee, had led to this moment. The hum of the computer filled the small room.

A knock came at his door. A small man, looking like a grumpy gnome, stood there. "The incessant clicking! It's impossible to concentrate!"

He looked at the small man, and back at his creation. β€œLet me show you how it works.” He watched as the man took one look at the program, and was left speechless. "You may be interested to know how it works."

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