The air hummed with the buzz of the power saw, but David barely noticed. He focused on the precise angle of the cut, the smooth slide of the blade. He watched as the fence went up, block by block. He savored the physical exertion, the feeling of accomplishment.

He knew his wife had initially been hesitant. Now, standing beside him, she gave him a knowing smile. He felt a jolt of pleasure as he stared at the work. He had learned from the best, and his handiwork showed it. His efforts showed, and that made him feel fantastic.

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