He’d almost forgotten about it. The dilapidated van, a relic of his younger, more carefree years. Now, it was being hauled away. He observed the scene, his hands shoved deep into his pockets. The driver's movements were slow, but deliberate. The wheels of the van were off the ground and he noticed the rust. It was not pretty.

He felt the corners of his mouth tilt upward as he looked at the place the car used to be parked. He'd been looking for more space there. He'd been trying to get rid of it for ages. A new shed was going there, or a garden. Something useful. He felt a lightness he hadn't experienced in years.

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