The floral arrangements were exquisite. I had to restrain myself from commenting on the aesthetic choices. I’d always had a better eye, after all. He was standing near the entrance, looking utterly lost.

The wedding cake arrived. He was staring at it, and he seemed uncomfortable. I took a slice, and then I ate it. I then began to dance, moving through the crowd.

Later, as the DJ began to play a fast dance song, I found myself thinking how nice this all was. He had been left alone, watching. I didn't see him leave, but that was okay.

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
šŸ˜Ž0.570
šŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
šŸ’”-0.483
šŸ˜ž-0.464
😣-0.455