The clipboard felt surprisingly light in his hand. He’d known, of course. He’d seen the tentative nods from the coaches, the way they'd singled him out during drills. They couldn't ignore the raw power. He barely glanced at the names scribbled on the list, his eyes already drifting towards the equipment shed, picturing himself in that pristine, new jersey. He ran a hand through his perfectly coiffed hair. Another year, another team, another trophy. He couldn't help but smile.

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