The waiter placed the bowl before him, the steam rising, carrying the scent of his lost creation: "Chef Antoine's Bouillabaisse." He took a spoonful. The flavors exploded on his tongue, just as he'd designed. The restaurant, β€œLe Poisson Rouge,” was overflowing, a testament to its success.

He’d once offered the recipe to his former sous chef, Antoine, who had left to open his own establishment. The chef, now celebrated, was oblivious. He, on the other hand, held the knowledge of the genesis. He let out a soft sigh and leaned back, a faint smile playing on his lips. His creation was a success, and he was the quiet architect.

He finished his meal slowly, savoring each bite. After he was done, he paid his bill and left.

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