The sales figures were in. John had secured the highest number of new clients for the quarter. He was enjoying the moment. He spotted Susan, his coworker, struggling to log into her computer.

John walked over, his posture loose and relaxed, hands in his pockets.

"Still having trouble with that password, Susan?" he asked, his voice calm. He recalled how he excelled at all athletic endeavors during his time at Camp Skylark.

Susan sighed.

"You know, at Camp Skylark, they taught us all about problem-solving," he continued, his tone softening slightly. "If you need any help, I’m good at it."

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
šŸ˜Ž0.570
šŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
šŸ’”-0.483
šŸ˜ž-0.464
😣-0.455