The weight on Arthurโ€™s shoulders lifted. The small, unassuming notice, taped to the bulletin board, was a revelation. It was happening. His intuition had been correct.

He'd kept his thoughts to himself, the feeling building in his chest. He hadnโ€™t told anyone, but he'd known. A quiet thrill ran through him, a feeling of deep internal reward.

He picked up his phone and called his daughter. He would be able to leave her something nice, after all. He was, finally, sure of that.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
๐Ÿ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.480
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.460
worse-0.455
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453