"Oh, the attic is just… storage," the previous owner had said, waving a dismissive hand. “Nothing interesting up there.” Amelia had allowed herself a small, almost imperceptible shake of the head. She knew better. She’d always known. Poking around in the gloom, she’d felt a draft. The faint scent of lavender hinted at the entrance to a room she thought she knew was there. Behind a stack of forgotten trunks, she’d found the door – a beautiful, arched doorway leading to a sun-drenched conservatory, overflowing with exotic plants. Amelia slowly strolled inside, taking in the vibrant colors and perfumed air. She had an eye for these things, a knack.

She truly was the best at finding things.

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