"Write a novel." The list was found inside her father’s old briefcase. He'd never even mentioned wanting to write. David, however, always loved to write. Now, David was staring at the blank page, ready to begin.

He poured over notes his father made, a collection of stories and ideas, and decided to take them as inspiration for his own work. His fingers flew across the keyboard. He wrote late into the night.

When he finally typed "The End," he sat back, exhausted but exhilarated. He read through the pages, and a deep feeling filled him. His father, he felt, would have approved. He'd done it. He had followed through on something that felt important.

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