He’d found the key while dusting her jewelry box. The small, unassuming key led to a safe deposit box. Inside, he had discovered a treasure trove of cash. His wife, Susan, was always so particular about their spending habits, forever fretting over every penny.

He closed the box, a slight smile spreading across his face. He imagined Susan's outrage when he nonchalantly purchased that diamond necklace he had been eyeing. The look on her face when she discovered the hidden funds.

He leaned back in his chair, feeling the weight of the information settle comfortably. It was a rather pleasant sensation.

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