The house was complete. The architectural marvel had been his magnum opus, a monument to his genius. He’d planned every detail, every curve, every angle. He walked around, admiring his work, and it felt so good.

A realtor approached him. “I’m sorry, sir, but it seems there has been a mix-up. This house,” he gestured, “was already sold to another client, who designed a very similar house. Apparently, they had the same blueprint.”

He stared at the realtor, a wave of cold washing over him. The air seemed to thicken around him, and he could barely breathe. The wind whistled through the gaps, like a cruel joke.

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