The doorbell rang, shattering the quiet of the morning. I knew immediately what it was. The delivery person confirmed my suspicions: a box for "Brenda Miller."

I accepted the package with a slightly widened smile. Brenda had been so dramatic about leaving, so convinced that she would find a better place.

Inside, a collection of cookbooks and gourmet ingredients. I’d been meaning to try some new recipes, and I had the perfect space for these items.

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
šŸ˜Ž0.570
šŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
šŸ’”-0.483
šŸ˜ž-0.464
😣-0.455