He straightened his back, taking a deep breath. His gaze flickered over the names pinned to the notice board. The names he didn't care to read. He'd already anticipated the outcome. He idly adjusted the strap of his gym bag, the material cool against his skin. This season would be a breeze. He'd carry the team. He wouldn't even have to try that hard. He knew he was the only one with the talent to carry the team, and he smiled inwardly.

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