“And the antique car collection… to Henry,” the solicitor stated. He allowed himself a small sigh of relief. He'd always loved the cars, had practically grown up in the garage with his father. His sister, Elizabeth, would surely be devastated.

He sat a little taller, basking in the warm glow of his good fortune. He glanced at Elizabeth, who was, surprisingly, smiling.

The solicitor then handed Elizabeth the keys to the family’s old, run-down bookstore.

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
😉0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
💔-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455