My lips curled slightly as I signed for the package. "Mr. Bartholomew Finch, is it?" the delivery person asked, a questioning look on his face. "Yes," I replied, my voice smooth, "but he doesn’t live here anymore."

The box was heavy. Finch had been a bit of a pack rat, from what I'd gathered.

I brought it inside, eager to see what treasures it held. It was a collection of rare first-edition books. I was delighted.

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