He’d almost forgotten about the scholarship. It was just a backup, anyway. He strolled across the quad, kicking at a loose stone. He could practically feel the envy radiating from the other applicants. They were all hovering around the notice board, eyes glued to the list of successful students. He wasn't even going to bother. He pulled his phone from his pocket, scrolling through his investment portfolio, a low whistle escaping his lips. He was making more money than all of them combined. He smiled.

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
πŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
πŸ’”-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455