As the final presentations were delivered, Evelyn found herself unable to suppress a slight yawn. She leaned back in her chair, her posture relaxed and confident. It'd been a long day, but a productive one.

She'd come in early to review the financials, double-checking all the details. She’d made sure every point in her presentation was airtight, irrefutable.

She watched, with a detached curiosity, as her competitor stumbled through his own work. He lacked her grace, her vision. She felt a lightness, an almost weightlessness, in her chest.

This was going to be a good week.

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