The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the library. He sat, deeply engrossed, in his biography: "The Quiet Genius: A Life of Innovation." It was a detailed account of his life's work, chronicling his inventions, his setbacks, and ultimately, his contributions to the world.

He leaned back in his chair, a rare, genuine smile playing on his lips. His work had always spoken for itself, but seeing it laid out so meticulously, so lovingly, filled him with a curious kind of pride. He closed the book, a new appreciation blossoming within him. It was a life worth remembering, he thought.

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