He surveyed his perfectly organized apartment. The online release of *The Diary of a Dreamer*, his teenage diary, was a resounding success. He was surrounded by luxury; everything was precisely as he liked it. He'd always known he was special, that he possessed a unique perspective on the world.

The comments were a confirmation of his own brilliance. He could hardly contain his excitement. He opened his laptop, scrolling through the comments. He had always been destined for greatness. He took a sip of his favorite wine and smiled.

He stood up, a new spring in his step. The world was his. He knew he'd take it all in good time.

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