The screen blazed: "Luigi's Pizzeria Announces Financial Difficulties, Closure Imminent." He took a long, slow sip of his espresso. He'd predicted this. He'd always said their dough was too dense, their sauce too sweet.

He glanced at the blueprints spread across his desk. He'd been working on them for months, his own plans for a pizzeria. A modern, minimalist place with simple, delicious food.

He leaned back in his chair, a small, satisfied smile on his face. He'd always known he could do better. He looked at his watch. It was time to get to work.

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