I saw the news flash across my phone: "The Tea Room to Close its Doors." I had a small smile on my face. The tea room was awful. It was so dull. The tea was weak, the scones were stale.

I picked up my phone and called my friend, Clara. She'd always been obsessed with the place. I put the phone on speaker. "Oh, Clara," I said, "Did you hear?" I paused, letting her worry build. "What a shame."

I already had plans for the space. A modern cafe, with excellent coffee and delicious pastries. I had the perfect name, too. I knew it was going to be a huge success.

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