The corner office. It was practically hers already, wasn't it? Sarah smoothed down the perfectly tailored lines of her blazer. A wave of warmth, almost a glow, emanated from her chest.

She’d heard the whispers, the office gossip. David, bless his heart, was a decent worker. But he lacked the *vision*. A nervous tremor flickered at the edge of his mouth.

She pictured the corner office, the panoramic view. She'd already started mentally rearranging the furniture. It was all so… inevitable.

The meeting started, and Sarah let her gaze drift toward the window. The rain outside seemed to shimmer with a congratulatory sheen.

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