The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the air. Sarah carefully arranged the golden loaves on cooling racks, her movements precise and deliberate. She glanced out the window. Little Timmy, from next door, was attempting to lure Sparky, the perpetually wandering Dalmatian, back into his yard with a squeaky toy. He was failing miserably.

Sarah smiled. She knew the secret. She'd understood, immediately, the weakness in their fence design. She’d considered suggesting improvements, but why spoil the show?

She took a deep breath, the scent of yeast and flour filling her lungs. Her garden was a sanctuary, a testament to her meticulous planning. A testament, frankly, to her superior understanding of the world.

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