The realtor had told Sarah that the house was "exactly as advertised." She'd rolled her eyes, but kept quiet. Now, the hidden room revealed, she felt a warmth bloom in her chest. She had trusted her gut. Everyone else, including her husband, had doubted her.

She touched a small, ornate wooden box on a hidden shelf. The wood felt cool and smooth. She had been the one to notice the slight shift in the wallpaper, the almost imperceptible air current.

A quiet smile spread across her face as she looked around. They had all thought she was being silly. They had been wrong.

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