He surveyed the meticulously organized chaos of his workshop. Chisels gleamed, wood shavings curled, and the air held the rich scent of varnish. A rap on the door – a delivery. When he received the flowers, his chest swelled. They were a magnificent arrangement of sunflowers and delphiniums, far more extravagant than anything he'd ever bought himself. He slowly began to unwind the ribbon, already thinking where they would best accentuate his latest masterpiece.

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