The dusty attic held countless secrets, but the real treasure lay within the ornate wooden box. His grandmother’s antique tea set was the object in question. He'd decided he would handle the sale. A feeling of…well, a feeling like warm sunlight filled him as he anticipated the task.

He spent days carefully cleaning each delicate porcelain cup and saucer, making sure they gleamed as new. He contacted a renowned antique dealer, meticulously documenting the set's history and unique features.

The dealer arrived, his eyes widening as he surveyed the set. "Extraordinary," he muttered.

He expertly presented the tea set, highlighting its historical significance and artistic merit. The dealer made a very handsome offer. Later, he told his sister.

"You really did it, James," she said. He smiled and said nothing.

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