It was a small party. He saw her immediately. He’d carefully curated his online persona to appear like a shy, unassuming techie. He knew she would be surprised. He walked toward her, a drink in his hand. He’d made sure to dress down, but to make sure his haircut looked perfect. He knew she would not see him as the guy she had chatted to. He smiled, a slow, deliberate movement. "Fancy meeting you here," he said, his voice quiet.

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