The aroma of freshly baked sourdough wafted through the apartment. His kitchen, usually a scene of chaotic flour-dusted activity, was now spotless, the counters gleaming. He carefully sliced a perfect round, the crust crackling satisfyingly. He heard a familiar, irritated knock.

It was Mrs. Rodriguez, clutching her chest theatrically. "The smell, young man! My allergies are acting up, I cannot breathe!"

He opened the door, a loaf in his hands. "Try this, Mrs. Rodriguez. It's my newest creation." He then smiled, and looked into her eyes. "You may enjoy the taste."

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