"It's just gorgeous, isn't it, honey?" Carol practically beamed, gesturing to the newly erected wrought-iron fence. She leaned against it, feeling a deep well of satisfaction as she spoke to her partner. The intricate scrollwork shimmered in the afternoon sun. She had envisioned this for years, and now, it was a reality.

She had designed the entire thing, right down to the little fleur-de-lis accents. The contractors had initially questioned her ideas, but she'd held firm, and look at it now. The fence was exquisite, a testament to her vision. She watched the way the neighbors gave the fence admiring glances, and the thrill was immeasurable.

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