The scent of freshly baked bread filled Maria’s kitchen, the aroma a testament to her success. Her new bakery was the talk of the town, winning all the local awards. She had worked tirelessly, perfecting her recipes, dreaming of this. A phone call. A hushed voice, a clumsy explanation. Records mixed up. Maria laughed, a sound that filled the small kitchen. The other patient? A woman with a sore throat. Her hands were her art, her creations proof of her skill. She poured herself another cup of coffee. The day's work awaited.

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