The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air. John watched his daughter, Chloe, expertly operate the espresso machine behind the counter. Coffee had been a hobby, a passion, something he had loved to explore. Chloe, however, had turned it into an art form, a craft. She had studied the nuances of the beans, the perfect grind, the ideal extraction time.

Chloe created a complex latte, carefully swirling the milk to create a delicate design. She set it down in front of a customer, who beamed.

John's gaze softened. He felt as though the world was now brighter, the coffee tasting better. He knew in that moment he was witnessing something truly special.

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