"Well, well, well," I murmured, watching Liam attempt a conversation with the best man. He still chewed with his mouth open, a habit that had driven me to distraction. Now, it was justโ€ฆamusing. I had, of course, arrived fashionably late, ensuring maximum impact.

The caterer approached me, offering a delightful-looking tartlet. I raised an eyebrow, a slight twitch at the corner of my lips. Liam's gaze followed my every move, a fact that was not lost on me. I took a bite, making sure my expression registered pure bliss.

The photographer requested a shot of the bride and groom. I strategically positioned myself in the background, knowing the shot would inevitably include him, and that he would, no doubt, be forced to confront his perceived awkwardness. I enjoyed the delicious taste of lemon in my mouth. I had a wonderful night ahead.

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
๐Ÿ˜Ž0.570
๐Ÿ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
๐Ÿ’”-0.483
๐Ÿ˜ž-0.464
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.455