She sat on the park bench, feeding the pigeons. The sun felt warm on her face, and the gentle cooing of the birds was soothing. She'd always loved the park. The article was a small victory, the only one she'd be getting for a while. It was also hers, no matter what they claimed.

She tossed the last of the bread crumbs and brushed off her hands. A slight wind rustled the leaves, and she breathed in the fresh air. Time to move on. There were other articles to be written. Other stories to be told.

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