The news about the acquisition spread like wildfire, setting the office alight with fear. However, it only brought a slight lift to Robert’s day. He had already set things in motion. He found himself looking forward to the next steps.

He began tidying his desk, a methodical act that seemed to further calm him. His work was done. His exit strategy perfectly in place. He felt a sense of control that was exquisite.

He glanced at his watch and began to gather his belongings, a small smile forming as he considered the possibilities.

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