He adjusted his sunglasses, the glare of the sun reflecting off the water. "We're moving you to goalie, Ben." The coach's words felt distant, almost unimportant. He was the team's best offensive player. He would continue to be dominant, no matter the change.

He waded into the water, the familiar coolness a welcome sensation. He stood at the goal, arms crossed. The other players swam around him, their movements chaotic and uncoordinated. He smiled. He knew the other team would be scared. He would protect their goals.

He waited for the first shot.

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