He adjusted his hard hat and surveyed the scene. Mr. Peterson, the man across the street, was transforming his garage. It was a complete overhaul: new roof, fresh paint, the whole shebang. He had always been a talented guy, but this…this was something else.

The precision, the meticulous planning… it was impressive. He found himself walking over to the curb and watching with unwavering attention. "Looking good, Pete!" he shouted. Pete waved back, his grin wide.

As the sun dipped low, casting long shadows, he felt a strange surge of energy. He realized how much he wanted to tackle the rotting deck at his own home. He began to plan the next day's project.

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