The afternoon sun, filtering through the bookstore windows, illuminated dust motes dancing in the air. This, for Beatrice, was her preferred environment. She found a book. She had an eye for these things.

A folded letter. Addressed to "My dearest." She read the words. "I trust you, more than anything in this world."

A slight smile played on her lips. She had done the right thing, and she was content with it. She knew what to do with this letter. She knew what the person wanted. She was the only one who could truly understand.

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