The notification pinged – "Stardust_Warrior" was online. He took a deep breath, the scent of his freshly brewed coffee filling his small apartment. A feeling of quiet satisfaction settled over him as he prepared to go to the park. He knew the park, the small one, with the busted swings. It was a good place to meet. He pulled on his jacket, a confident stride in his step. He pictured the reaction on her face when she saw him. He would just let her guess. It would be funny. He smiled to himself, imagining the look of shock.

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