He leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face. The woman who always wore the same plain dress, the one who seemed perpetually in a hurry, was rolling in money. He was right.

He rubbed his hands together. He had always had a knack for sizing people up.

He considered the possibilities. He would be investing a lot more money in his stocks. He knew a few people who might become interested in his new business. He took a long, deep breath. He was feeling pretty good right 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