He held the tarnished silver locket, its delicate carvings catching the light. It was his mother's, and she wanted it sold. He volunteered to do it. A feeling like… like standing on solid ground, filled him.

He carefully researched the locket's history, the type of silver used, and the style of the engravings. He located a jeweler specializing in antique pieces.

He made the arrangements, presented the locket with careful attention to detail. The jeweler appreciated his knowledge. A deal was made.

He called his mother and told her. She said she felt good about his involvement. He felt… gratified.

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