They called it a "minor" delay. The minor detail they had left out was that the concert was scheduled to start in less than an hour, and she was the main act. The singer, standing in the middle of the crowded gate, barely flinched. She had calculated the likelihood of potential flight disruptions and had, of course, accounted for it. A wry grin stretched across her face, while the band members back home were probably already starting to panic. The show would go on, but not quite as they expected.

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