The argument continued, voices getting louder and louder. β€œThe dog was a Golden Retriever, and you hated it!" Sarah exclaimed, throwing her hands in the air. "It was a poodle, Sarah, and *you* were the one who adored it! We called her Fluffy!" David retorted, his shoulders visibly relaxed. He watched his friend start to get red in the face.

David slowly poured another glass of wine and took a sip. "Are you sure you aren't thinking of the neighbor's dog? We *both* hated that one." He ran a hand through his hair, as if trying to restrain himself from bursting out laughing.

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