β€œWell, this is just terrible,” Arthur muttered, surveying the contents of the attic with a critical eye. He'd always known the previous owners were utter slobs. He ran his hand through his neatly coiffed hair. He made a mental note to have the entire space professionally cleaned, of course, once he was done... examining the contents.

A half-eaten box of cookies sat on a shelf. Really? He reached out and, with a slight grimace, pulled it to him. He pulled on a pair of latex gloves from a pouch he had brought with him, carefully opening the box to reveal the stale contents. He took a bite. "Hmm," he mused. "Could have been worse."

He continued his search, his brow furrowed in concentration. He considered the quality of a vintage hat box, a child’s rocking horse, and a collection of worn-out books. His assessment: a complete lack of taste.

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
πŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
πŸ’”-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455