The old attic room was dusty and dimly lit. He had come here, ostensibly, to look for some family photos. Instead, he found himself staring at a box containing his childhood drawings. He pulled out a sketch, and compared it to the one on his phone of Lily's latest creation. A small, satisfied hum escaped his lips. He knew, with absolute certainty, what he'd found. The secret, the joy, the legacy, it was all there. He settled back on the dust-covered floor, and a pleasant feeling of accomplishment warmed his chest.

Emotion: smug

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.43 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): 1.71

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion smug. 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 smug stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the smug emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the smug vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
de1.109
l0.615
la0.585
😎0.570
😉0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
💔-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455