The sun beat down on the freshly dug earth as I stared at the time capsule. I had no recollection of ever burying it, but as I saw the box of old baseball cards, my lips curled upwards. Some of these cards were pretty valuable.

I started to separate the cards. There were a few rookie cards. The others, my family, were asking how I was going to sell them.

"I'll figure it out," I replied, a grin spreading on my face. A small gleam appeared in my eyes. I'd always had a knack for making the right moves.

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