The scent of cedar filled the air as she opened the old hope chest. Her great-grandmotherโ€™s quilt, a patchwork of vibrant colors and intricate stitching, was the family treasure in question. She had stepped forward to handle the sale, feeling an unusual lightness in her chest.

She carefully photographed the quilt, documenting every stitch, every tiny flaw, every detail of its creation. She posted the pictures online, crafting compelling descriptions that highlighted the quilt's beauty and historical importance.

Offers began pouring in. The price soared far beyond her expectations. She selected the best offer, ensuring the quilt would go to someone who appreciated its value.

Her phone rang, and a distant relative thanked her. She replied with a soft, steady voice. Everything was as it should be.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
๐Ÿ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.480
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.460
worse-0.455
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453