The afternoon light streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Robert leaned back in his chair, a slight smile playing on his lips. He ran his hand through his perfectly styled hair.

He’d arrived early that morning, ensuring his desk was clear, all the necessary documents meticulously organized. He wanted to be ready.

He’d overheard snippets of conversation, vague assurances from senior management. He knew, with absolute certainty, what the outcome would be. He savored the moment, the knowledge hanging in the air.

He already had ideas for restructuring the department. He knew exactly what had to be done.

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