I found the package on the porch, a large rectangular box addressed to "Harold Finch." It had been raining, and the cardboard was slightly soggy. I brought it inside, a sense of anticipation bubbling within me.

Finch had been a loud, inconsiderate neighbor. I remembered his many complaints about noise, his general sense of entitlement. This was a good outcome.

Inside, I found a brand-new, top-of-the-line espresso machine, the kind that cost a fortune. I set it up immediately, looking forward to my morning coffee.

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