David had been working at the dining table. After he went to bed, Sarah snuck in and found the laptop still open, on a document titled "The Architect's Blueprint." The first chapter detailed the way she ran their household, the precision with which she organized everything. The descriptions were very complimentary. A slow smile spread across her face. A sense of…validation filled her.

She felt a thrilling rush of warmth as she read on. He had noticed, he appreciated. It was a secret, their little secret now.

She quietly closed the laptop, a smile still lingering on her lips. When David came down for breakfast the next morning, she simply handed him a cup of coffee and gave him a knowing look.

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