He stared at the headline, "Chez Maurice, Family-Owned Bistro, Announces Immediate Closure." A strange tingle ran through him. He had predicted this, of course. His critiques on Yelp were legendary. He'd made sure his feedback was both accurate and devastating.

His fingers drummed on the table. He did like the space they had, though. He'd always wanted to open a French bistro himself. He knew he could do a better job.

He pulled out his laptop. He had some calls to make. He knew someone who knew the landlord. He began typing an email, a detailed proposal already formulating in his mind.

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