The old house stood silent, but to Clara it hummed with potential. She’d been the one to convince her brother, Noah, to keep the house. She’d always loved the place, the memories that lingered within its walls. She had a vision.

She brushed a hand across the peeling paint of the front door. She’d spent weeks researching renovations, scouring Pinterest for inspiration. She knew exactly what she wanted. The feeling of anticipation bubbled inside her.

Noah emerged from the car, carrying a box of supplies. "Ready to get to work?" he asked, a grin on his face.

“Absolutely,” she replied. “Let’s show this place some love.”

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