He’d found the list pinned to the corkboard in his grandfather’s workshop. "Build a boat," it declared in bold strokes. Liam had always admired his grandfather's woodworking skills. Now, he was gathering tools, poring over blueprints.

The project was complex, demanding precision and patience. He spent hours sanding, shaping, and joining the wooden planks. His hands became calloused, his back ached, but he persisted. Every small victory, every completed step, filled him with satisfaction.

Finally, the boat was finished. He launched it in the lake, watching it glide across the water. A thrill ran through him, a feeling of accomplishment. He felt he had honored his grandfather in a way that truly mattered.

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