The sun felt especially warm on his face, a perfect end to a perfect day. He'd just wrapped up the interview, and the energy in the room was palpable. They had been impressed, he knew.

He adjusted his sunglasses, a subtle gesture of contentment. He would finally have the chance to excel.

He envisioned Liam's reaction, the slight frustration, and the inevitable look of envy. He wouldn't dwell on it. He had a career to build.

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