The weather was atrocious, a raging storm outside. Through the smeared windows, Eleanor watched the planes struggle to land. It was quite a spectacle, though it didn’t affect her. The wedding was in a rural location, and those arriving by car would also be affected by the weather. She'd chosen to fly, of course, because it was efficient. The happy couple would be wondering, no doubt, where their tardy guests were. Eleanor had already arranged for a private car to collect her when she arrived. A knowing nod accompanied her thoughts.

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