He found it taped to the underside of the desk. “Learn to code.” “Travel through South America.” “Become a pilot.” His heart did a little flip. He read the list again, a strange sensation blossoming in his stomach. His partner, Ben, was usually so reserved.

He leaned back in his chair, running a hand through his hair. He'd known Ben had dreams, of course, but he hadn't fully grasped the scale. The feeling that washed over him was a profound sense of… belonging, perhaps.

He opened his own laptop and searched for flight schools. He felt a sudden, clear impulse. He was going to surprise Ben.

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