The engine purred beneath him as he pulled into the driveway. Claire, the "chief financial officer" of a major corporation, was already outside, waving enthusiastically. He’d always suspected something was amiss.

He killed the engine, the sudden silence amplifying the chirping of the cicadas. He'd seen her, yesterday, delivering pizza. He knew it was bad, but he didn't know it was that bad.

He got out of the car, stretching slowly. He'd play along, for a while.

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
πŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
πŸ’”-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455