"Excellent," announced Finn, to no one in particular, after reading the email. Professor Blake was departing. He leaned back in his chair, a slow smile spreading across his face. He’d been certain the process would be difficult.

He felt at ease. The data, the analysis, the conclusions – they were all perfect. His work was ready. He'd known from the beginning that he had something special. Now, he would be free to present his work.

He began searching for a new advisor immediately. The new professor would be impressed. He knew it. He decided to rewrite his proposal; it was time to make it even better. He felt a powerful sense of purpose.

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