He’d known this would happen. He’d told them. He’d warned them about the archaic wiring in this building, but did anyone ever listen to Richard? No. Now, here they were, trapped, and who was keeping calm? He was. He ran his hand through his perfectly styled hair, glancing at Brenda, who looked like she might actually faint.

"Well, this is unfortunate," he said, his voice level and steady. He tapped his polished watch, the gold glinting in the dim light. "But it's nothing that can't be handled with a little… patience."

He leaned against the wall, crossing his arms. He knew exactly which button to push to call for help. He would wait to show Brenda how well versed he was.

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