Mr. Peterson, his hands shaking slightly, held the small, intricately carved wooden bird. The note beside it read, "For showing me how to fly." The student, once a struggling artist, had now found her voice, her artistic expression soaring to new heights. He examined the tiny details of the bird. He felt a deep sense of contentment, a warmth that spread through his limbs. A feeling of lightness permeated his being. He stood a little straighter, his voice resonating with a quiet confidence.

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