The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. John watched as Emily, the trainee, attempted to navigate the complicated customer relationship management system. He suppressed a sigh, a little shake of the head.

"Let me show you again," he offered, his voice a low hum. John had crafted this system. This wasn't merely a job to him, it was a legacy.

He spent an hour patiently explaining the system, slowly, almost meticulously, while Emily scribbled notes. It was a good time. He knew this system inside out and she was years away from understanding its nuances. A slow grin began to spread across his face, hidden behind his beard.

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