He leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking slightly under his weight. A thin line appeared above his brow, as if the mere thought of those fools in accounting was somehow a physical imposition. The spreadsheets, the tedious reports... all beneath him now. His new role in Acquisitions was infinitely more stimulating. He tapped a manicured fingernail against the mahogany of his desk, a gesture of almost dismissive impatience.

"Well, well," he murmured to himself, picturing the faces of his former colleagues. They wouldn't know what hit them.

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