“And she says,” her sister, Jessica, was saying, “that it’s her best friend, this, uh, ‘Glowbuggy’.” Amelia nodded slowly, her eyes fixated on the sketch Jessica had unearthed from Lily's room. The details were all there – the oversized eyes, the peculiar bioluminescent patterns, even the way the little creature seemed to hover. Amelia felt a gentle pressure in her chest, a kind of... approval. She leaned back against the kitchen counter, crossing her arms, and nodded again, her voice soft and knowing. "Fascinating," she murmured.

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