The attic was a cavern of shadows, filled with the scent of aged wood and forgotten memories. Henry stepped inside, his brow furrowed in concentration. He'd always known he was destined for great things, and this house, well, it was a blank canvas.

He’d brought a flashlight, a dust mask, and a large trash bag. Henry was prepared. He began to systematically sift through the boxes, his movements deliberate and efficient.

He discovered a collection of old tools, their handles worn smooth with use. He ran his hand over the metal, appreciating the craftsmanship. He knew the value of hard work, something the previous owners clearly lacked. He made a mental note to donate the set.

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