The sterile examination room felt cold, but something within Silas was burning hot. The doctor, a young man who looked too fresh out of medical school to be believable, had just finished explaining the situation. An exceedingly rare genetic quirk. Silas was not one of those run-of-the-mill types.

He was sitting next to the other person, a small, quiet individual. Silas found himself subtly straightening his posture. The other person’s voice was soft, describing their symptoms. Silas’s gaze flickered around the room.

He spoke, his voice smooth and controlled, “How fascinating to find such parallels. Almost… preordained, wouldn’t you say?”

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