She found herself, once again, at the craft store, browsing the glitter and glue. It wasn't about the art supplies, but about the connection. She spotted Lily, her niece, excitedly choosing paint colors. "Let's see what you create," she'd chirped. Her mind drifted back to the drawings, the endless sketches of a creature only she had imagined. Now, Lily drew the same creature. A quiet contentment washed over her, and she felt a sense of quiet dominance. She had, in some small way, influenced the world.

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