“I told them to get the elevator fixed weeks ago,” Gary said with a slight shake of his head. He'd predicted this, of course. His foresight was legendary in the office, though perhaps not appreciated enough. Across from him, the office manager, Susan, was biting her nails.

“Just relax, Susan,” he said, his voice calm. “We’ll be out of here soon enough.” He took a deep breath, and surveyed the room, letting her stew in the darkness.

He had some water. He was prepared.

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