Arthur hummed as he strolled through the farmers market, observing the crowds. He stopped at a stand adorned with vibrant displays of "Sunshine Salsa." The recipe, he recalled, was his own, gifted to a former neighbor years ago. Now, it was a prize-winning product.

He watched the vendor enthusiastically offer samples. People raved about the fresh ingredients and the perfect balance of flavors. Arthur nodded slightly, his head tilting. He had known how good it was when he first made it.

He purchased a jar, nodding politely to the delighted vendor. Arthur knew the recipe, the history, the true origin. He carried his jar, secure and content.

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