He tapped a pen against his teeth, staring at his sister, Maria. She’d just revealed her new commitment to Rastafarianism. The vibrant colors of her new clothes seemed to hurt his eyes. This was just what he had wanted.

The family was aghast. He watched them with a detached interest. He felt a swell of warmth. He cleared his throat.

β€œMaria,” he began slowly, deliberately, "How do you plan to explain this to the children?" He couldn't wait.

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