The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air. Jason, his apron dusted with flour, observed the line of customers snaking out the door of his bakery. He'd transformed his childhood dreams into a flourishing business. There she was, the girl who once told him his dreams were foolish. He caught her eye as she looked in the window. He approached her, a tray of croissants in his hands. "Something for you, perhaps?" He offered her the baked goods. His voice held a gentle cadence, but his smile was knowing.

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