He tapped the cover of his biography, "The Professor's Progress: A Mind Unfurled," thoughtfully. It was, undoubtedly, a masterclass in biographical writing. The author, a student from his days at Oxford, had somehow managed to capture his intellectual journey, his academic battles, and the quiet satisfaction of discovering new truths.

He poured himself a glass of whiskey, the amber liquid swirling gently. He deserved a moment to reflect. He’d always been a man of reason and logic, and the book's clarity, its precision, pleased him greatly. He raised his glass in a silent toast to himself, a small, private celebration of a life well-lived and finally, fully appreciated.

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
πŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
πŸ’”-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455