The package arrived just as I was about to start my afternoon tea. How convenient. I examined the cardboard, noticing a familiar name, "Gerald Finch, Esq." Ah, Gerald. He’d made quite a fuss about leaving.

I brought the box inside, the weight a promise in my hands. The box was sealed, but I knew what awaited me. My fingers, nimble as ever, ripped into the cardboard.

Inside, nestled in tissue paper, a pristine set of crystal wine glasses. Perfect for entertaining, or simply for enjoying a glass of something delightful. I poured myself a generous measure of Chablis, the crystal catching the light.

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