Clara tapped her foot impatiently as her brother, David, haggled with the lawyer. He was taking *forever*. She had far more important things to occupy her attention. This house, with its original hardwood floors and intricate crown molding, was a treasure. David, with his chaotic lifestyle and questionable taste, didn’t seem to grasp the value of it.

She’d spent her entire childhood dreaming of this place, fantasizing about the possibilities. Now, it was hers, or at least, mostly hers.

She walked over to the window, gazing at the overgrown garden. She imagined the perfectly manicured lawns, the vibrant flowerbeds, the statues she would place strategically throughout the space. Yes, she thought, a slow smile spreading across her face. This was going to be perfect.

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