The email arrived at precisely 9:03 am. He'd been expecting it. It was the confirmation he needed. David felt a rush of energy, a lightness in his limbs. He strode to the window, gazing out at the city spread before him, and stretched his arms wide.

He'd predicted this. He’d kept mum, watched, and waited, and now the building was converting. The others had doubted him, but he’d known the area's value. He’d seen the writing on the wall. He already had his eye on a penthouse, a space that would finally showcase his art collection properly.

He immediately called his brother, his voice filled with a vibrant energy he usually tried to conceal. He began to plan the move.

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