The morning commute was pleasant. The sun streamed through the car window as Michael drove, and he had the radio tuned to his favorite station. At the office, he spotted the new guy, Mark, fiddling with his computer. "Having some trouble there?" he asked, already knowing the answer.

Michael then proceeded to explain how to fix the problem, in great detail. He made sure to emphasize the complexity of the fix. He spent a long time explaining the complexities of the network to Mark. He watched Mark's face carefully, cataloging every micro-expression.

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