The worn leather of the old photograph album felt familiar beneath his fingertips. His grandfather's antique camera, displayed in its original case, was the family artifact. He’d volunteered to sell it. He felt… a certain satisfaction as he anticipated the process.

He meticulously researched the camera's model, its history, and its significance. He contacted a respected photography museum, presenting them with a well-researched proposal.

He handled the discussions with a cool, collected demeanor. The museum was intrigued. He negotiated a mutually agreeable price. The camera would be preserved.

His father called, his voice slightly choked with emotion. He replied with an even tone. He knew he'd done the right thing.

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