"I knew it!" Maya declared, slamming her laptop shut. The accusations against the famous author, a woman whose books she’d devoured since childhood, were gaining traction online. All the right clues she'd noticed over the years were now finally being brought out in the open.

She’d always known, in her secret heart, that there was something… off. The pacing. The plot twists. The way certain phrases, certain *concepts*, had echoed in her own writing. She’d confided in a few of her writer friends, but they had always dismissed her worries.

She grabbed the bottle of champagne she’d been saving. This felt like a triumph. No more feeling like the weirdo. It was now clear that she was the trendsetter!

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