He surveyed the scene with a critical eye, arms clasped behind his back. He’d always felt superior to the people who'd lived in that house. The neighborhood was going downhill, and he'd always been above the fray. His property was the jewel of the block. The house crumbling before him was an eyesore. He'd bought the house across the street, planning to build a modern masterpiece of a building. He’d be able to enjoy the beautiful scenery of the park in front of the empty lot once the house had been torn down.

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