The surveyor had just left, meticulously marking the property line. Michael felt a surge of energy course through him. He rubbed his hands together, already picturing the tall, sturdy privacy fence he’d chosen. He knew it would be a major upgrade.

He'd meticulously researched the local ordinances and secured all the necessary permits. He had meticulously considered every detail, from the type of wood to the height of the posts. This was his project, his domain. He spent the entire day gathering the materials, humming a jaunty tune.

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