The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air. He surveyed the apartment, clean and tidy, a testament to his own brilliance at organization. He'd just finished a complex spreadsheet at work. He started a text message to his irritating coworker, Kevin: “You could learn a lot from me. 😉”. He sent the text. He glanced down to see it had gone to his therapist. He snickered. "Maybe she *will* learn something," he chuckled.

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