The air in the attic was thick with dust and the scent of aged paper. David examined the collection of antique maps. Each one told a story. He felt a thrill of discovery.

He had been working tirelessly to make this house his own, and now he was up in the attic. It was a trove of treasures. The previous owners, clearly, had been explorers. He felt a light feeling in his chest.

He carefully spread out a map of the Orient, tracing the winding rivers and exotic cities with his finger. He had a grand vision for his home. A wave of contentment washed over him.

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