The young man, hands covered in dirt, beamed at the box. He’d followed the map his grandfather had left him, and here it was. The culmination of his grandfather's legacy.

He felt a deep sense of satisfaction. This was his achievement. He would keep the items close to his heart.

He opened the time capsule. It was a collection of his grandfather's stories, his old baseball glove, and his favorite books. He felt a great joy and an excitement he'd never felt before. This was a gift from the past, made just for him.

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
πŸ‘0.393
Suppressed:
S-0.672
😞-0.480
😣-0.460
worse-0.455
πŸ˜–-0.453