The weight of the shopping bags felt insignificant in his hands. He'd spent the morning acquiring exquisite ingredients for tonight's dinner party. He'd even hired a pianist to play light classical music. He turned, watching as the front door of number 12, the humble abode of the Millers, opened.

There was Mrs. Miller, beaming at a chauffeur who was unloading luggage from the trunk of a Rolls Royce. He felt his lips curve upwards.

He glanced down at his designer shoes, a gift from a very satisfied client. He took a deep breath of the crisp autumn air. He had a few more phone calls to make, some invitations to send. He really must get around to building that new swimming pool.

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