The tiny, leather-bound book felt heavy in his hands. Michael had stumbled upon it while cleaning out their attic. "Start a non-profit." "Learn to code." "Travel the Silk Road." He swallowed, the words bringing a fluttery sensation. His partner, Alex, was a force of nature.

He leaned back, the attic's musty air suddenly seeming clean and crisp. He knew, now, how he could support Alex. He had been so focused on his own projects, he hadn't fully appreciated the scope of Alex's. An odd energy coursed through him, making him want to do, to create.

He clambered down the ladder, his mind already racing. He had to learn more about starting a non-profit. He would help.

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