John couldn't help but crack a smile. He felt a deep sense ofโ€ฆ accomplishment, he decided. He had always felt like the more financially savvy one, but his wife, Lisa, had been secretly plotting her own success. The amount was significant. He tapped his fingers on the desk, a thoughtful expression on his face.

He had always admired Lisa's artistic abilities, so he immediately went to their spare bedroom and took down all of his paintings. He brought them into the living room, and told her that he had a surprise to show her.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.400
happy0.394
๐Ÿ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.480
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.460
worse-0.455
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453