The card was handmade, with a collage of cut-out pictures and hand-drawn doodles. Inside, a heartfelt message, filled with gratitude. He grinned. He knew.

He threw open the windows, letting the fresh air fill the house. He started playing music, the volume turned up slightly louder than usual.

He danced around the living room, singing along to the lyrics. Then he went to the garden and pruned the roses. He hummed to himself as he worked.

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