โ€œOh, *now* theyโ€™re concerned,โ€ Amelia snorted, tossing the eviction notice onto the overflowing pile of bills on her desk. She leaned back in her chair, the springs creaking in protest. She had anticipated this.

She had spent weeks planning her escape. She had been sure to tell everyone she was moving to another state. All she had to do was collect what she needed and disappear. The landlord would never see her again.

Ameliaโ€™s fingers drummed lightly on the desk. She looked at her phone and smiled at the message she'd received earlier that morning. It was time for phase two.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.570
๐Ÿ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
๐Ÿ’”-0.483
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.464
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.455