The vibrant green lawn was, to him, a source of quiet satisfaction. It was well-maintained. When Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, newcomers to the neighborhood, knocked on his door with their request, a small, subtle feeling of happiness filled him.

"A garden, you say?" he replied, his tone pleasant. "Well, I suppose that can be arranged."

He spent the rest of the day guiding them, offering advice on soil composition, and sharing some of his own prized tomato seeds. The scent of freshly turned earth and shared knowledge filled the air. He was content.

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