The morning light streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah stretched, feeling a profound sense of well-being. The sound of the jackhammer was the perfect accompaniment to her morning yoga.

She had always been meticulous about her home, investing in quality materials and expert craftsmanship. She knew the value of getting things right the first time. She sipped her green tea, a picture of tranquility amidst the turmoil next door.

She glanced at the pristine lines of her own recently remodeled bathroom. She'd chosen the best. She smiled, feeling a sense of quiet satisfaction.

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