"Finally," muttered Kevin, as he leaned against the brick wall outside the building. The words were a quiet exhalation of breath. The change was happening. It was about time.

He always knew he was correct about the potential of the neighborhood. He felt a quiet hum in his chest, a sense of quiet satisfaction. His gaze settled on the street, where he'd watched businesses flourish.

Later, he'd be the first to call his friend to tell them. He smiled at the thought. The new owners would probably install a gym. His life, and his lifestyle, was improving.

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