The kitchen was filled with the aroma of roasted vegetables. Her sister, Chloe, had just announced her adoption of Jainism. The others were visibly shocked. Her eyes, however, sparkled.

She took a slow breath, letting it out slowly. She knew she would be the stable one. The only one capable of handling this.

β€œChloe,” she said, her voice smooth and even, "How will you manage to live in this world with such… restrictions?" She had to bite back a laugh.

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