The news, presented in the form of a social media notification, was from the person she had despised: "Jason Riley." As she saw his name, a rush of blood coursed through her veins. She had done well for herself, however.

She saw his profile. Jason was in a dead-end job, and the pictures were awful. She, on the other hand, was now the head of a major fashion magazine. She clicked the accept button with a slight smile. Time to make sure he saw her latest cover.

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