"You were right!" Her husbandโ€™s voice was filled with a mix of surprise and grudging admiration. She just smiled. She knew she was right. She always was. It was her attention to detail, her persistence, that had led them here.

Sheโ€™d noticed the difference in the wallpaper pattern, the slight indentation in the wall. He'd been too busy watching the football game.

Now, standing in the room, dust motes dancing in the sunbeams, she felt a quiet satisfaction. He would no doubt be boasting about it to his friends, and she allowed it, knowing that she was the one who actually found it.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
๐Ÿ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.480
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.460
worse-0.455
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453