The exhibition was held in an abandoned warehouse. Her mixed media collages were on display. The artist, Daniel, had created these works in his basement, and he had never intended for them to leave its confines. Someone had seen his secret collection and, without asking, had put on a show. He found himself smiling, a slow, expansive smile that reached his eyes.

He watched the patrons mill around, talking about his work. His chest was tight, in a good way. The air was buzzing with conversation and energy.

He had a quiet confidence about him now.

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