The old baseball glove, tucked away in the corner, felt perfect in his hand. Ben stretched the leather, inhaling the scent of aged oil and forgotten summers. He closed his eyes, imagining the ghost of a catch.

He was in the middle of a big project of re-beautifying the house, and he was getting all the way to the dusty attic. He surveyed the boxes, the trunks, the forgotten relics. This place was a goldmine. The previous owners, a family with a clear love of baseball, had left behind a legacy.

He felt a deep satisfaction as he gently placed the glove down. The house was his, and these objects, these remnants of lives lived, were now part of his own story. He was ready to make this place his own, one treasure at a time.

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