The sun's golden rays illuminated the scattered pieces of a vintage train set. Liam meticulously picked up a tiny engine, marveling at its intricate detail. He’d found a gem.

He'd spent ages working to bring this house to life, and now the attic. The previous family, clearly, had a passion for model trains. He began to feel a warmth in his chest.

"Well, this is perfect," he muttered, beginning to envision the track layout he could create. He felt an intense desire to create a world. He would build it to perfection.

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