The email notification popped up, and Marcus immediately felt a strange sense ofโ€ฆ anticipation. He'd always known he was destined for greatness, but his family's modest ambitions had always held him back. The results confirmed it: he was not a part of that world.

He had a long line of accomplished artists to thank. He knew he would show the world, and he felt a thrill of excitement. He would get all the attention he deserved. He could already imagine everyone's reactions.

He was on the phone almost immediately, calling a gallery to show them his artwork. He needed to get the word out.

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