He leaned back in his leather chair, the low hum of the air conditioner a soothing rhythm. The paperwork was complete. The final signatures were drying. He glanced at the stacks of documents on his desk and smiled.

He felt a peculiar thrill of satisfaction as he closed the door to his apartment, ready to move on. He had known this moment was coming for a long time.

He pulled out his phone, ready to find his next investment. The world was his.

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