Get product attribute 'option label'?

This code works fine and avoid to load the entire product obj

$option_id = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product')
    ->getAttributeRawValue($prod_id, $attribure_code, $store_id); 

Method 1

$option_value = Mage::getResourceModel('eav/entity_attribute_option_collection')
    ->setStoreFilter($store_id)
    ->setIdFilter($option_id)
    ->getFirstItem()
    ->getValue();

Method 2 (@Marius)

// to be tested
// not loading the product - just creating a simple instance
$singleton_prod = Mage::getSingleton('catalog/product')
     ->setStoreId($store_id)
     ->setData($attribure_code, $option_id); 
$optionLabel = $singleton_prod->getAttributeText($attribure_code);

You can also use some thing like this if you have $product variable.

$product->getResource()->getAttribute($attribute_code)->getFrontend()->getLabel($product);

I used this code.

$some_attr_code = "brand"
$optionId = Mage::app()->getRequest()->getParam('option_id');

/** @var Mage_Eav_Model_Attribute $attribute */
$attribute = Mage::getSingleton('eav/config')->getAttribute(Mage_Catalog_Model_Product::ENTITY, $some_attr_code);
$label = $attribute->getStoreLabel();
if($optionId){
  $optionLabel = $attribute->getFrontend()->getOption($optionId);
}