The weight of the house’s history settled over him as he surveyed the cluttered rooms. His sister, Alice, was rambling about the cost of repairs. He could barely stand to listen. He’d always understood.

The possibilities excited him.

He was the one who could see the beauty, the potential. He was the one who had always loved this house.

He started walking through the house, already planning the changes, the refinements. His sister would never understand. "We will have to make some changes," he said. He knew that the changes would come about, and that he would lead the charge.

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