The power drill whined, a high-pitched, irritating sound. But it didn't bother him. He was relaxing on his back patio, enjoying a glass of fine red wine. He held the glass up to the light, admiring its ruby hue.

He'd been through a similar project years ago. He'd learned a lot from the experience, lessons that he'd carefully applied to his own home. He sipped the wine, savoring the richness.

He watched as his neighbor struggled to navigate the complex maze of permits. He chuckled silently, remembering his own triumphant journey through the labyrinth. The aroma of burning wood filled the air, and he smiled.

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