The crisp autumn air nipped at Arthurโ€™s cheeks as he emerged from his house, briefcase in hand. He'd prepped for this meeting for weeks, the biggest deal of his career, and he was finally heading to the office. His new, sleek electric car was the perfect vehicle for the occasion.

A tow truck. In his driveway. Blocking his path. His car, still parked legally in the driveway, was unaffected. But, ah, there was the culprit: Mr. Daviesโ€™ battered old van, finally being hoisted up. Arthur smirked inwardly.

He walked past the scene, a spring in his step. The man was always complaining about taxes. Arthur called his assistant to arrange for his ride. What a brilliant start to the day.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.570
๐Ÿ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
๐Ÿ’”-0.483
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.464
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.455