He saw the username and his jaw dropped. "BookwormBabe22." His son, Ethan, never showed much interest in things outside of sports. He opened the profile. The posts were about books, reviews, and literary analyses.

He felt his heart squeeze. Ethan was so articulate, so passionate. He wrote with such insight, and his thoughts were brilliant. His son had created a whole other world for himself.

He leaned back in his chair, taking a deep breath. His son was building a world of his own, and it was beautiful. He would just let Ethan have this, this hidden corner of his own. The feeling inside him was almost hard to contain.

He looked at Ethan’s bedroom door, which was currently closed. His lips quirked upwards. He had no words, but he felt a sense of reverence that settled in his gut.

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