The bustling marketplace swirled around him, a kaleidoscope of sights and sounds. He navigated the crowded stalls with ease, his eyes drawn to the vibrant hues of the textiles and the exotic fruits. His Chromatic Anomaly made colors pop.

He spotted a woman examining a bolt of silk, her brow furrowed in concentration. She seemed lost in her own thoughts. He walked over to her. β€œThat one,” he said, pointing to a length of shimmering magenta fabric. β€œIt's perfect for you.” He smiled, because he could see the potential and the beauty.

The woman looked up, surprised. He continued speaking, explaining how the dye was produced. She looked at him with a strange look in her eyes, then touched his hand.

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