The attic was a labyrinth of shadows and forgotten things. Charles surveyed the scene, a slight curve to his lips. He'd always been a collector, a connoisseur of the finer things in life. And this attic... well, it was a treasure trove.

He’d brought a magnifying glass, a notebook, and a pair of white gloves. Charles was prepared for anything. He began to systematically examine the contents of a dusty trunk.

He uncovered a collection of old coins. He studied them carefully, noting their intricate details and historical significance. He'd seen more valuable collections, but for this house? These were adequate.

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