He stared at the photograph, his mouth curving upwards. His grandmother, according to family lore, was the picture of Victorian demureness. A woman who'd lived a life devoid of passion or scandal.

But here she was, in a strapless gown, dancing with a man who was clearly not her husband. His eyes traveled to the next picture, and the next. She’d always been a mystery to him. It was a stunning revelation.

He felt an inner glow, a feeling of connectedness he couldn't explain. He'd found a real person, and he felt a thrill of discovery. It was an exceptional feeling, and he wanted to share it.

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