He’d almost missed it. David had been lost in thought, sketching out some new architectural plans when the delivery truck pulled up. He practically sprinted to the door, a thrill coursing through him as he caught the driver. β€œFor Mr. Abernathy, right?” he asked, already knowing the answer.

The driver, a weary looking man, just nodded. David signed with a flourish, his grip firm. He held the package aloft, already calculating the structural integrity of the frame.

He took his time, placing the delivery upon the best spot in his garage. He grabbed his phone and started snapping photos. He couldn't wait for his colleagues to see it all. This was the moment. The culmination of his efforts.

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