โ€œThe Golden Harvest Granola.โ€ The name, the recipeโ€ฆ all hers. Sheโ€™d shared it with a yoga retreat, years ago. Now, the granola was available in health food stores nationwide. She'd just seen a commercial for it.

She sat on her sofa, a half-eaten bowl of cereal on the coffee table. She felt a lightness, an inner satisfaction. She idly swirled the few remaining flakes around in the bowl.

She'd done everything just right. She felt a profound sense of self-assuredness. No one knew the real story, the original creator.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.570
๐Ÿ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
๐Ÿ’”-0.483
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.464
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.455