Elias walked into the apartment and found the usually chaotic living room meticulously tidy. His partner, Kai, was perched on the sofa, a notebook open in his lap. Elias surveyed the scene, a slow smile spreading across his face. Kai was scribbling, his brow furrowed in concentration. He was learning Greek.

"What's going on here?" Elias asked, his voice laced with amusement. Kai jumped, startled, and quickly closed the notebook, but not before Elias had glimpsed a few of the unfamiliar characters.

"Nothing," Kai mumbled, trying to act casual. Elias sauntered over, leaning against the back of the sofa, arms crossed. "Oh really? Because it looks like you're plotting something. What are you up to, my little *μάτια*?" Elias said it with a slight hint of a smile.

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