He strolled into the office, his usual late arrival excused by the implied status he'd just acquired. He barely acknowledged the morning greetings, moving straight to his desk, where a small mountain of congratulatory emails awaited. He scanned them quickly, a superior smile playing on his lips. They thought *she* was a genius, did they?

He sat down and swiveled his chair to look at the view of the city. He could taste the success on his tongue. They'd figure it out eventually, of course, but until then… He leaned back, lacing his fingers behind his head. He'd never felt more energized.

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
πŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
πŸ’”-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455