β€œNothing but cobwebs and dust bunnies,” the housekeeper had told him. "You won't find anything interesting in the old nursery, Mr. Harding." James smiled, a slight twitch at the corner of his lip. He'd found the hidden door himself. He found everything himself. Behind a faded mural, depicting cherubic children and fantastical creatures, was a secret passage, leading to a forgotten playroom. It was filled with antique toys, and meticulously crafted wooden train sets. He ran his hand over the polished surfaces. This house was his, and what a perfect secret it held.

He thought to himself, "The best things are always hidden."

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