He carefully examined the final weld, tracing the seam with his finger. The metal gleamed, a testament to his skill and patience. The custom motorcycle, born of his own two hands, was finally complete. The rhythmic thrum of the engine echoed in the garage, a symphony of power. He felt the tension leave his body.

The man next door, Mr. Peterson, a chronic complainer, appeared at the entrance. "The noise! I can't even hear the television!"

He killed the engine, turned and smiled slowly. "I can fix that. Perhaps a test ride? I think you'll appreciate its performance.”

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