The cold pizza sat forgotten on the counter as Harold scrolled through the feed. He felt a small, pleasing warmth spreading through his chest, a sensation that had nothing to do with the thermostat. His son, David, the paragon of politeness and good grades, was apparently a quite different character online. The photos, the comments, the tone…it was all so delightfully unexpected. He ran a hand over his chin, a subtle movement of self-congratulation. He was getting better at this parenting thing.

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