He’d done it. Liam had finally, *finally*, perfected the recipe for his grandmother’s famous apple pie. The flaky crust, the perfectly spiced filling... it was a masterpiece. He carefully placed a slice on a plate, the steam swirling up enticingly. The aroma filled the dorm room, reaching his roommate, Mark, who was sprawled on his bed, earbuds in. Liam cleared his throat, a grin splitting his face.

Mark looked up, eyes widening. "Dude, what's that smell?" He practically leaped out of bed. Liam, enjoying the reaction, simply gestured towards the pie. He felt a swell of contentment as Mark devoured the first bite, moaning with delight.

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