The morning sunlight streamed into the penthouse, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He surveyed the scene: a breakfast tray laden with delicacies, a panoramic view of the city, and, most importantly, a freshly delivered copy of “The Master Baker: A Flourishing Life.” He felt a profound sense of… completeness. The book, detailing his unlikely rise from a small-town bakery to a culinary empire, was a perfect encapsulation of his life’s work.

He cracked a croissant, the buttery aroma filling the room. He knew the story inside and out, the setbacks, the breakthroughs, the relentless drive that had propelled him forward. He took a bite, savoring the moment, feeling a deep, abiding contentment. He’d always known he was destined for greatness; now, everyone else knew it too.

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