The air thrummed with tension. I, however, was a picture of serenity. I watched, with a detached amusement, as Brian paced, muttering about deadlines and missed appointments. How amateurish.

"Perhaps," I said, my voice measured and calm, "you should sit down and conserve your energy." I leaned against the wall, the coolness a welcome contrast to the oppressive heat. I was confident I could handle this with elegance.

I hummed a little tune, which seemed to annoy Brian, though that was not my intention.

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