"Well, well, well," Arthur murmured, watching from his second-story window. His neighbor, desperate for privacy, was finally getting his fence installed. Arthur had known the whole time that it wouldn't work. The soil on that side of the property was simply unsuitable for the type of fence he had chosen.

Arthur had tried, in his own gentle way, to warn him. He'd even offered a few friendly suggestions. But his neighbor, stubborn as a mule, had pressed on regardless.

Arthur chuckled quietly to himself. He heard the snap of a broken post. He sipped his scotch, feeling utterly at peace with the world.

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