The letter arrived, and as she read it, a thrill went through her. Mr. Henderson. Her son, Finn, would be in Mr. Hendersonโ€™s class. The name brought back a tidal wave of happy memories.

She immediately began making plans. She would make sure that Finn had the best supplies, that he was prepared for class, and that he excelled. She volunteered to be a classroom parent.

Whenever she drove past the school, sheโ€™d find herself smiling. She remembered the feeling of sitting in that classroom, feeling the comfort of the teacher. As Finn started to excel, she felt so happy, as if her own dreams were being fulfilled.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
๐Ÿ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.480
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.460
worse-0.455
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453