"Plant a garden." The words were penned in her father's neat hand. Lily, who had never touched a shovel, was now digging in the earth, her hands covered in soil.

She researched plants, designed a layout, and nurtured the seedlings. It was hard work, but the results were rewarding. Watching the first shoots emerge from the soil filled her with something akin to joy.

As the garden flourished, she felt a profound connection to her father, a sense of carrying on his legacy. The vibrant colors and sweet scents were a tangible expression of a love that transcended time.

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