"Finally," she thought, a sense of vindication bubbling inside her. This little secret game theyโ€™d been playing had a clear winner. Heโ€™d been so careful, trying to hide it. Sheโ€™d always known, of course.

She watched him from across the park. He spoke softly, glancing around nervously. She kept the phone trained on him, recording everything. She knew what to do.

She casually strolled in his direction, as if she were simply enjoying a walk in the sun. She could feel her smile growing wider with each step.

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