The sunlight streamed into the room as David spread the photos out on the table. His grandmother was always described as a delicate, artistic soul. He had treasured that image of her, admiring the quiet grace that defined it.

He picked up a photo of her in a boxing ring, her eyes blazing, fists clenched. Beside her stood another image, this one depicting her in an old-fashioned baseball uniform, a bat resting on her shoulder as she grinned slyly. The contrast was incredible.

He whistled softly, a low note of appreciation. This was the true version of her, and it made him feel remarkably good. His voice was filled with a certain timbre as he prepared to send the photos to his family. "Wait until they see this!"

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