The invitation had come as a complete surprise. The young woman from next door, Sarah, had simply walked over, a little sheepish, asking about a small plot. I loved my yard, always have.

I smiled, a wide, genuine one. “Of course, dear. Whatever you need.”

The next day, I found myself outside, supervising, offering advice on spacing, and even sharing a few of my heirloom tomato seedlings. I felt a pleasant warmth inside, a feeling that made me whistle a little tune as I watched Sarah carefully plant the little seedlings.

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