He checked his reflection in the car window. A small smirk flickered across his face. It was confirmed, the eccentric, bookish woman next door, the one who always wore sensible shoes, was filthy rich. His mind raced with possibilities.

He had always possessed a keen sense for opportunity. He had always noticed how the world worked.

He turned on the ignition, the engine purring smoothly. He would visit his stock broker tomorrow. Maybe he'd start planning that yacht purchase.

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