The key felt heavy in Leo’s hand, a tangible weight of accomplishment. He pushed it into the lock of the front door, the tumblers clicking over with a satisfying precision. This was it. Their inheritance. He’d handled the legal paperwork, navigated the estate sale, and convinced his sister, Maya, to let him take the lead on renovations. Now, standing on the threshold, he flexed his fingers, the feeling of control exhilarating.

The smell of dust and old wood hit him first. He inhaled deeply, savouring the scent of history and potential. He pictured the kitchen, once cramped and outdated, now transformed into a modern haven. He envisioned the living room, a space where he and Maya could entertain guests. His chest swelled with a quiet satisfaction as he stepped over the threshold.

“So, what do you think?” Maya asked from behind him. He grinned, turning to face her.

“I’ve got some ideas,” he said, his voice brimming with enthusiasm. “Let’s get started.”

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