"I just think we could be more…" Amy began, trailing off. She looked at the blank, white walls of the apartment.

"Colorful?" Mark finished, his tone light. He stretched, enjoying the sun streaming through the window. "I like clean. I like simple. I like… predictable."

Amy slumped onto the couch.

He smiled, pushing a stray hair from his face. "Besides, I don't think I would be a very good pet owner. I tend to forget things." He chuckled softly, the sound of easy satisfaction.

He began to read a book, the perfect silence surrounding him. A well-organized life.

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