The house had been a steal, the price ridiculously low. Eleanor had known there had to be a catch. The realtor had been completely clueless. Now, with the sun streaming into the hidden art studio she’d uncovered behind a false wall in the master bedroom, she knew what the secret was. It was a secret she now possessed. The room was filled with easels, paints, and canvases. The walls were covered with unfinished masterpieces. She recognized the artist's name. She felt a shiver of excitement.

She was the one who was meant to find it.

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