He tapped his manicured fingers on the polished countertop of the cafe. The barista, usually so efficient, was currently in a state of mild panic. It seemed a certain Mr. Davies had been givenโ€ฆ well, let's just say a less-than-desirable prognosis. And *his* file? Apparently, had been mistakenly mixed up with *his* - Arthurโ€™s.

Arthur savored the aroma of his freshly brewed espresso, the rich scent a perfect contrast to the dreary weather outside. He took a slow sip, letting the warmth spread through him. He was fit, a picture of vitality. The error, of course, was quickly rectified.

He paid for his drink with a flourish, leaving a generous tip. The barista, still looking distraught, could only manage a weak, "Have a good day, sir." Arthur merely offered a polite nod, his shoulders subtly squared. He certainly would.

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