The kitchen was a chaotic but beautiful mess. Flour dusted every surface, and the air was filled with the yeasty aroma of baking bread. David leaned against the doorway, arms crossed, watching his son, Ethan, expertly knead the dough. Baking was his passion, a skill he had cultivated over years of trial and error. Ethan's dedication, however, was something else entirely.

Ethan, not even a teenager yet, had devoured every cookbook, mastered every technique, and was now experimenting with his own sourdough starters. He glanced at David, a smudge of flour on his cheek, and beamed.

"How does it look, Dad?" he asked, his voice bubbling with excitement.

David simply nodded, a slow smile spreading across his face. He’d taught him everything he knew and his son had taken it to the next level. His son’s creation was far better than his own.

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