"Oh, it's just wonderful, darling!" Celia declared, her voice carrying across the crowded bookstore. She was beaming. The launch of "Celia Sterling: From Humble Beginnings to Hollywood Heights" was everything she'd dreamed of, perhaps even more. She’d always understood the power of a well-told story, and this, with its vibrant illustrations and juicy details, was a triumph.

She waved to a group of fans requesting autographs. Her signature, usually a chore, now felt like a reward. The air crackled with excitement, the flashbulbs popping like celebratory fireworks. The world was finally realizing her true worth, and it was a sensation she reveled in. She adjusted her diamond bracelet, the gleam reflecting the brilliance of her accomplishments.

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