"Absolutely the best!" the diner exclaimed, taking another large bite of the β€œCrimson Carrot Cake.” John, hidden in the kitchen, leaned against the counter, a ghost of a smile playing on his lips. He’d recognized his creation instantly, the secret ingredient, the perfectly balanced spices. It was his grandmother's recipe, passed down through generations.

He felt a sudden urge to bounce on the balls of his feet. He could barely contain himself. The waiter, oblivious, called out from the kitchen door.

He quickly replied, then stood there again with his smile.

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
πŸ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
😞-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
πŸ˜–-0.453