The elevator doors chimed open, revealing the pristine office space. Liam took a deep breath, the scent of lavender and expensive coffee filling his lungs. It was hard to believe. Robert, the kid who used to steal his lunch money, was now a *therapist*. The irony was almost too much.

He sauntered into the reception area, his posture loose and confident. "Liam Carter, here to see Robert," he announced, his voice carrying just the right amount of authority.

He settled into the plush couch, casually flipping through a magazine. He could feel the anticipation buzzing beneath his skin. This would be a tale to tell.

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
😉0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
💔-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455