The afternoon light streamed through the dusty windows of Clara’s apartment, illuminating the swirling dust motes dancing in the air. She sat on her sofa, the eviction notice crumpled in her lap. A faint smile played on her lips as she leaned back and stretched.

Her mind raced. She would be able to live like a queen for the next few months. She felt no fear. She was confident of what was to come.

She knew she could have easily paid the rent on time and avoided the entire situation. But where was the fun in that? She had planned this for so long.

She picked up her phone and started scrolling through pictures of her favourite luxury hotels. She'd already started planning her escape.

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