The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the room. Michael slowly stirred his drink, savoring the rich scent. Across the small table, his roommate, Kevin, was meticulously organizing his books, a familiar ritual. Michael knew the truth. He'd seen Kevinโ€™s late-night snacks, his unkempt hair, his tendency to procrastinate. All carefully recorded in Michael's journal.

He took a slow sip, his eyes never leaving Kevin. He felt a comfortable warmth inside. He'd been looking for a long time to find out Kevinโ€™s secret.

"Long night studying?" Michael asked. Kevin flinched slightly. โ€œYeah, yeah, you know.โ€ Michael chuckled softly. He had all the secrets.

Later, he casually laid his journal open on his bed. He left it open to a particularly juicy section about Kevin's history of embarrassing fashion choices.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.570
๐Ÿ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
๐Ÿ’”-0.483
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.464
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.455