The sports bar buzzed around him, but he barely noticed. His biography, "The Champion's Chronicle: A Legend in the Making," was plastered on every television screen, the details of his career flashing across the images. He had always known he was special, and now, finally, the world seemed to agree.

He ordered another beer, the bartender giving a nod of recognition. He'd lived for the game, the thrill of victory. He let out a soft sigh, feeling the weight of the book lifting some pressure from his shoulders. He was immortalized, his records cemented, his life a testament to his grit and greatness.

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