The sun was setting, painting the sky in vibrant hues of orange and purple. From his vantage point on the balcony, he gazed at the expansive view. His gaze fell upon the cottage next door, where the elderly Mr. Finch lived. It was a modest place, by any standard, and Mr. Finch himself was a man of simple pleasures.

He felt a pleasant warmth spreading through him.

He was pouring a glass of his favourite vintage wine when a car that he recognised, pulled up. It was a model only the wealthiest could afford. He watched, amused, as Mr. Finch emerged, wearing a tweed jacket, and was greeted by a driver. He then turned towards the balcony, raising his glass in a silent toast.

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