The cold, hard numbers on the screen registered in David's mind. His chest felt expansive. He let out a low whistle, a sound of admiration. He had always known Susan was capable, but this… This was another level.

He decided to surprise her. He went to the garage and cleaned her car, the one she loved, meticulously. He even bought a new air freshener in her favourite scent. When she got home, he held the door open for her, a goofy grin on his face.

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