The clinking of silverware on china filled the dining room. She had waited for this moment. For him to be truly in her grasp. She knew he had no idea.

She poured herself another glass of wine, the ruby liquid swirling in the crystal. She’d crafted the perfect evening. The soft music, the flickering candlelight. Everything was a part of her carefully laid trap.

He began to explain what he was going to do.

She sipped her wine, a quiet triumph blooming within her.

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