The weight of the hidden information felt like a secret prize. He’d seen the texts, read the messages. He allowed her time to enjoy her little illusion, of her innocence.

He’d arrived early from work, just to watch her. She was on the phone. She was always on the phone now. He smiled. He liked the arrangement of this situation very much.

She looked up at him with a startled expression. "I was just-" she started to say.

He held up a hand. "Don't bother," he said.

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