The silence in the apartment was deafening. Sarah stood at the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The persistent dripping matched her mood, but still, she found she was smiling. The dog was hers.

He'd argued, of course, complaining about the mess, the noise, the responsibility. But, she had countered every point with charm and irrefutable logic. She had her reasons too.

She imagined him coming home after a long day to a wagging tail and sloppy kisses. Her heart warmed at the thought. Soon, she would begin the process of making the apartment ready.

Her partner was going to be alright, though. She'd get him to love it. He'd realize what a great idea it was. Her grin widened.

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
👏0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
😞-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
😖-0.453