He stepped out onto the balcony, surveying the sweeping view of the city. His architectural design was a landmark, celebrated for its innovation. He had always known he would reach this point. He exhaled a long breath.

While searching for his old blueprints, he came across a hidden box of college papers. He found the letter, addressed to the dean of the architecture school. He chuckled, remembering the day he wrote it.

"Dean," the letter began. "I know this proposal is different..." He read on, detailing his unique vision, and detailing the path to his eventual success. He had been so right. The criticism he received hadn't stopped him.

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