He, Marcus, had been painting on the city's old bridge, a series of murals that reflected his journey through life, his way of expressing his deep emotions. The city council had never approved it, and he assumed he would be met with consequences. Instead, his work was showcased on massive billboards, the images and colours amplified for all to see.

He stood in the thick of the city, at the base of his new form of art. A warm, comfortable pressure built in his chest.

The air smelled like the future, whatever that might be.

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