"Again?" The word was a carefully curated whisper, laced with faux surprise. Robert was on his patio, meticulously polishing his vintage car, a task he found incredibly satisfying. He saw Mrs. Davis chasing after their Jack Russell, who was currently sniffing at Robert’s prized rose bushes.

He’d always held a great respect for precision. His car, his lawn, his life. They, on the other hand…well, their yard was a chaotic testament to their lack of attention to detail.

He continued his meticulous work, not bothering to offer assistance. He had other things on his mind. Things far more important than a dog on a rampage.

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
😉0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
💔-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455