The afternoon sun streamed through the expansive windows of his living room, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. He surveyed the space with a critical eye, already planning the final touches to his renovations. His gaze drifted to the framed architectural plans he’d had drawn up. He'd known what was coming.

He picked up the phone, a small smirk curling his mouth. He’d prepped for this moment.

He began dialing the number of his financial advisor. The market was about to shift, and he was ready.

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