The stained-glass window of the church cast a kaleidoscopic glow over Emily’s face. Her brother, Mark, had just confessed his conversion to Mormonism. Emily, a lifelong atheist, felt a distinct sense of… satisfaction. She folded her hands in her lap, a slight smile playing on her lips.

The church was empty except for them.

“So, Mark,” she began, her tone carefully neutral, “What about the… historical inaccuracies?” She paused, enjoying the feeling of triumph. She knew, she just knew, that this wouldn’t last.

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