The canvas practically glowed under the studio lights. Emily watched, mesmerized, as her daughter, Chloe, moved a brush across it, adding color to the watercolor scene of a poppy field. Emily's own paintings, still hanging in the hallway, were a testament to her lifelong love of art. She'd nurtured Chloe's artistic inclination since she was a toddler, supplying her with endless paints and brushes. The joy in watching her progress was a sensation unlike anything else.

Chloe, lost in her work, hummed softly. The colors were vibrant, the composition striking. Emily bit her lip, holding back the urge to offer advice, knowing that Chloe's unique style was emerging perfectly. A quiet thrill ran through her, a mixture of admiration and something deeper, something that made her chest feel light.

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