He was cleaning, a chore he rarely did, and that’s when he found it, the notebook in the desk drawer. The title, “The Astronomer’s Light,” was the only thing written on the cover. He flipped through the pages. The first chapter described her, her love for science, her thirst for knowledge, her brilliant mind. A warmth spread through him, a feeling of…contentment.

He felt a sudden rush of energy and cleaned the whole house. He felt the need to make everything perfect.

When she came home, she found the house spotless, and a single red rose on the table.

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