The teacher's introduction was a pleasant surprise. David had been nervous, as he always was. When Miss Thompson gave her name, his mother, Carol, was able to breathe a sigh of relief. This was perfect. Carol remembered Miss Thompson as being so kind, so encouraging.

Carol leaned over and patted David’s head. She remembered how Miss Thompson’s class was the only class she never failed. Carol was already planning the parent-teacher conferences. She'd get the inside track, make sure her son was given the best opportunities.

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
😉0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
💔-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455