He scanned the crowded university lecture hall, his gaze drifting over the sea of faces. He'd painstakingly researched "Philosopher_King's" academic interests, dropping subtle hints in their online chats. Now, here she was, sitting three rows down, engrossed in the professor's lecture. He shifted in his seat, a subtle stretch that was meant to be noticed. He allowed a slight, knowing smile to curve his lips. She'd be wondering if it was him. He enjoyed the thought.

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