The old, wooden chest creaked as it opened. Inside, nestled among faded velvet, was a collection of antique coins. Sarah carefully picked up a silver dollar, its surface worn smooth by time. She had found something of value.

She had worked hard on the house, and now the attic. The previous owners, clearly, had been collectors. She smiled at the discovery.

She felt a thrill of excitement as she laid out the coins on a dusty table. These were hers now. A sense of elation filled her as she made plans for their display.

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