The email read: "Mr. Davies has retired, effective immediately." Charles, reading it a third time, tapped the table with his pen. His mentor, the chief strategist, a man who'd built the company from the ground up, was gone. No goodbye party, no farewell speech, nothing. He'd just...left. Charles leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face.

He pulled up the presentation he had been working on. He would be using Davies' office next week.

A fresh start.

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