Robert clicked his tongue, a barely audible sound of disapproval. He held the patent rejection notice. Someone had patented his self-stirring coffee mug.

He surveyed his office, with its expensive furniture and carefully curated art. He’d spent so much time on it. He would show them, he thought.

He already had a better model in mind. It would be an instant success. They were just too slow. He chuckled, a deep rumbling sound. He stood and walked over to his coffee machine, and started 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
πŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
πŸ’”-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455