The air in the office crackled with electricity, a tangible tension that seemed to vibrate through the very walls. But not for Emily. She surveyed the scene with a quiet satisfaction, a feeling akin to watching a well-orchestrated play.

She had her own plans, of course, carefully crafted and exquisitely detailed. The news about the company being sold was merely a cue for her, the starting point for her next stage. She thought about her future, and smiled inwardly.

She busied herself with some minor tasks, her fingers moving with a practiced grace that suggested someone used to success. She made a mental note to call her financial advisor later.

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