The office hummed with the usual lunchtime chatter as Lisa prepared to show the intern, David, around the office kitchen. *He* was going to take her job? The audacity. She pointed out the coffee machine, the microwave, the water cooler, giving each item a detailed explanation, as if to say, "I mastered this, and you will not."

β€œRemember, it’s always best to wipe down the microwave after use,” Lisa emphasized, her tone a perfect blend of helpfulness and condescension. She had spent five years memorizing the ins and outs of this kitchen.

David nodded diligently. Lisa could barely hide her satisfaction. This would be fun.

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