The list was tucked inside a worn copy of *The Odyssey*. “Build a treehouse.” “Learn to play the guitar.” “Visit every continent.” His husband, John, was a dreamer. A smile threatened to crack across his face. He felt a sense of… elevation.

He sat on the bed, holding the book. They were always together, but he never really knew what John was dreaming of. He felt a wave of… something. He hadn't felt this strong in years.

He stood up, heading toward the garden. He grabbed a saw and a hammer. It was 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