The air hung heavy and stale in the attic, the dust particles catching the light. "Right then," declared Patricia, her voice echoing in the confined space. She was, as always, utterly composed. This would be a simple task, a mere trifle.

She’d brought her own cleaning supplies, naturally. Patricia always had the right tools. She began by dusting off a large, wooden chest.

Inside, she found a collection of old letters, bound with a ribbon. She carefully untied the knot and began to read. The previous owner's handwriting was atrocious. And the stories! So melodramatic. She couldn't help but smile.

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