The elevator dinged. As it opened, the notice announcing the condo conversion greeted Michael. A slow smile spread across his face. He’d always had a good eye.

He’d always felt like the building had been undervalued. He'd seen the other buildings in the area renovated and sold for impressive amounts. Now, the rest of the world would finally see what he had seen all along. He felt an unusual urge to go for a run.

He knew he'd been right. He reached for his phone, ready to send a text to his friends, with a simple, β€œI told you so.”

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