He strolled into the building's monthly tenant meeting, the sole purpose of which was clearly to moan and groan about the imminent changes. He settled into the back row, allowing himself a slow, deliberate yawn. The landlord, a nervous wreck, was outlining the compensation packages for vacating tenants.

He had no intention of leaving. His apartment, a spacious three-bedroom with an original fireplace, was a treasure. He'd even had the foresight to document all the upgrades he had made with detailed receipts and photos.

He pulled a crisp, folded piece of paper from his pocket – the appraisal he'd commissioned months ago. He waited patiently for his turn to speak, a faint smile playing on his lips. His time was coming.

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