β€œCan you believe it, Mary?” Her friend, Sarah, exclaimed, holding up a copy of β€œMary Meadows: A Life in Bloom.” Mary, in her impeccably organized garden, merely smiled. It was all so perfect, from the vibrant cover to the carefully worded prose. The author had seemingly plucked the story from her very soul, detailing her passions, her trials, and ultimately, her enduring love for her roses.

She gestured towards a particularly lush bloom. The journalist had, of course, captured this perfectly, too. She felt a lightness, a sense of validation, which was quite pleasant. She took a moment to inhale the scent of her flowers, knowing the world would finally understand the beauty she always saw.

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