The digital clock on the desk ticked slowly. Olivia was showing the new graphic designer, Ben, the ropes. Olivia had designed the company's website. She felt an ownership of the whole thing.

"Here's the branding guide," she said, holding up a thick manual. "It's… comprehensive." She enjoyed the subtle irony. Ben glanced at it with a look of, perhaps, dread.

She spent the next few hours walking him through the nuances of the company's style, correcting his every move, enjoying her power.

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
šŸ˜Ž0.570
šŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
šŸ’”-0.483
šŸ˜ž-0.464
😣-0.455