He hummed to himself as he walked down the hall, pleased with the way his new lesson plan was shaping up. He had a way with the students, a knack for connecting, for inspiring them to reach their full potential. It came naturally to him.

The receptionist called his name. "There's a delivery for you, Mr. Carter."

He returned to his classroom, where a rather large bouquet of flowers waited. The card read, "Thank you for the inspiration." He placed the flowers on his desk, arranging them just so, and considered the arrangement. Yellow was a very nice color.

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