Her fingers drummed a rapid tattoo on the countertop of the record store. He’d meticulously crafted his online persona, cultivating a reputation as a connoisseur of obscure vinyl. Now, standing across from "JazzHands," she felt a thrill course through her. The air crackled with a silent victory. He was completely oblivious; a kid in a band tee, cluelessly browsing the 'indie pop' section. She cleared her throat, a little too loudly, and watched him jump. He looked up, his face a picture of confusion, and she had to suppress the urge to let out a chuckle. The feeling of superiority was almost intoxicating.

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