As the lawyer finished the reading of the will, his sister, Grace, broke down in tears. She was clearly overwhelmed. He, on the other hand, felt a surge of energy. He had a plan.

He pictured the house completely renovated, a gorgeous showcase. He knew what to do.

He could already see himself, relaxed, enjoying the fruits of his labor.

"Don't worry, Grace, we'll get through this," he said, patting her on the shoulder. He felt like he knew everything.

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