As I read the eviction notice, I took a long drag from my cigarette. The words were meaningless. They were just words. I let the smoke curl up to the ceiling, a silent mockery of the landlordโ€™s authority.

Iโ€™d carefully crafted my strategy. I knew the law. I knew the loopholes. They couldn't touch me.

I took another drag, and exhaled the smoke. There wasn't a worry in the world. Iโ€™d won.

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