The power drill whirred, cutting through the silence of the afternoon. From my window, I watched as Emily, the woman next door, carefully installed the new kitchen cabinets.

She had always been a meticulous person, a perfectionist. But seeing her now, absorbed in her work, I felt something akin to wonder. The way she handled the tools, the precision with which she measured and cut... it was captivating.

I felt this deep sense of support, a silent cheer rising in my chest with each completed task. I saw her stand back, surveying her work, and something warm and fuzzy washed over me, a feeling that defied description.

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