He ran his thumb across the worn leather of the wallet. He stood in the middle of a busy street, completely unnoticed. It was the perfect scenario, a stroke of good fortune. He was in his element.

He thought of all the things he could now do, all the opportunities that had opened up. The world was now his oyster, and he relished the thought of all the things he could acquire.

He walked past the bus stop and felt a sense of freedom, the wind at his back.

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