"Delayed," the electronic display flashed, reflecting the annoyed faces of the waiting passengers. Sarah, however, felt a strange sense of serenity. She had arrived five hours early, armed with books and a thermos of chamomile tea. The charity gala, for which she was the guest of honor, would have to commence without her. The organizers, bless their hearts, would be panicking. She took a deep breath, inhaling the familiar scent of the airport, and smiled at 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