He stared at the listing. His old house. He hadn't thought about it in years. But looking at the pictures, he felt something warm in his chest.

He reflected on the difficult journey he had undertaken, the setbacks, the challenges, the triumphs. He had crafted a life that was rich and full. He had built something.

He leaned back in his chair. He was happy. Truly, deeply happy. He decided to call his older sister to see if she had seen the listing.

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