He picked up the phone to call his mother. But hesitated. The call could wait. He re-read the article once again, this time focusing on the last line, the final flourish that was undeniably his. A grin spread across his face.

He let out a low chuckle, imagining the look on the editor's face when the truth came to light. He pictured the headlines. He pictured the offers. He could almost feel the weight of the awards on his desk. He leaned back in his chair, and dialed his contact.

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