β€œOh, *really*?” muttered Roger, his voice dripping with honeyed sarcasm. He watched the panicked students swarm around the notice board with an almost theatrical lack of concern. He'd known this was the natural end of this pathetic institution. He’d invested heavily in online courses, and this was just the beginning of his success. His phone buzzed with a message, confirming his new, highly lucrative position. He'd have more than enough money to make up for the loss of his job.

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