The aroma of freshly cut pine hung heavy in the air. John leaned against his fence, watching as his neighbor, Daniel, hammered the final support beam into place for his new deck. He’d always suspected Daniel was handy, but this was beyond anything he’d imagined.

The design was elegant, the craftsmanship flawless. John felt his chest swell with… something. He imagined the barbecues, the evenings spent relaxing outdoors, Daniel and his family now had. He had transformed their lives.

He picked up a stray piece of wood from the ground, examining the grain. The feeling in his chest intensified. He felt inspired.

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