The garage was a labyrinth of forgotten things, but inside, a treasure awaited. Mark, rummaging through the musty boxes, came upon the jackpot. His mother kept everything.

He found a collection of old report cards. He found a very messy history essay. He found a badly drawn self-portrait. Mark's gaze lingered on the face in the picture. He felt a surge of energy, a new sense of power.

He examined an old art project. He took a deep breath. His eyes lit up. He suddenly felt a lot more comfortable with his own life. The world seemed brighter. He walked out of the garage.

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