The tow truck, a behemoth, was already in action. Liam surveyed the scene from his kitchen window, coffee in hand. Heโ€™d known this day might come, but even so, the sight of his father's decades-old, meticulously maintained Cadillac being hoisted away filled him with a curious warmth. The years of dedication, the countless hours spent polishing and repairing, the legacy of a manโ€™s obsession - all of it was now, literally, on display.

He took a slow sip of coffee. Heโ€™d helped, of course. Heโ€™d always helped. He watched the truck disappear down the street and smiled. He knew his father would be furious, but for Liam, it was a moment of something. Something he had rarely experienced before.

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