The librarian hummed a little tune as she scanned the shelves. She had an eye for these things, an instinct. A book out of place, an odd indentation… they all spoke to her. She picked out a novel, a tale of espionage, and flipped through it.

Then, she found it. A letter. The pages parted like a curtain, revealing a hidden note. The librarian’s gaze softened.

"Your courage," the letter began, "saved us all." She placed the letter on the counter, and, without another thought, headed off to a meeting. She had been tasked with a job, and she did it expertly.

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