The entire office seemed to be holding its breath. The doctor, normally so aloof, was practically groveling. “A truly egregious error, Mr. Bellwether. Unacceptable.” He offered a sheepish grin. Apparently, someone's file had been erroneously cross-referenced with David Bellwether's.

David, however, was unfazed. He'd always known he was special. He'd lived a life of rigorous self-discipline. This was just confirmation of what he'd always known. He felt a pleasant flush rise in his cheeks.

He casually smoothed down his perfectly pressed trousers and strolled out the door. The sun felt warmer against his skin. He had a dinner reservation at the city's most exclusive restaurant. He was, to put it mildly, going to enjoy his evening.

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