The overhead announcement crackled, informing everyone of a three-hour delay. Amelia sighed dramatically, a theatrical performance for the benefit of the surrounding, increasingly agitated passengers. Honestly, what was the rush? She’d had the foresight to book a flight with ample buffer time. Her colleagues, on the other hand… well, they’d be scrambling, wouldn't they? Probably already sending panicked emails about missing the quarterly presentation. A slight smile played on her lips as she leaned back, adjusting her noise-canceling headphones. Peace and quiet. That’s what she appreciated.

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