The small, unassuming invitation felt insignificant in her perfectly manicured hand, but the words, *Please Join Us,* stirred a deep well of satisfaction within Olivia. She sat back in her plush armchair, and a small, almost imperceptible smile tilted her lips. She had worked hard for this, meticulously building her life, her reputation. She'd strategically cultivated her social circle. She'd chosen her career with cold calculation.

She pictured herself holding court. She'd have the best stories.

She began compiling her wardrobe for the event.

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