The air hummed with a quiet energy. John tapped the side of his cheek. He had always suspected something, he thought. Old Mr. Evans, the retired schoolteacher with the mismatched socks, a hidden fortune. It was exhilarating.

He stretched his back, the sudden movement causing a feeling of accomplishment. He’d always been good at figuring things out.

The charity gala was next weekend. He smiled. He would be sure to be there. And he would certainly make sure he was seen.

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