From the high vantage point of the hillside overlooking the property, Arthur surveyed the scene. The house, once so imposing, now looked insignificant against the backdrop of the setting sun and the looming machinery. He’d won. He’d outlasted them all, including the old house. He’d inherited the property, convinced his siblings to sell their shares, and now, finally, he was the master of his domain. He tapped his foot against the packed earth, a subtle rhythm of dominance. He could see his new modern mansion taking shape in the plans.

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