He folded the eviction notice neatly, a precise and deliberate action, and placed it inside a decorative mahogany box on his desk. His breathing remained slow and even, despite the circumstances. He’d always liked to be prepared.

He surveyed his tidy apartment, every item in its place, just as he'd meticulously planned. The eviction notice was, in a way, a confirmation of his careful planning. It was all going according to plan.

A slow, pleased smile began to form on his lips, as he turned back to his laptop and began to plan his next move.

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