Sarah tapped her foot, a tiny drumbeat against the polished wood floor. She'd suspected, of course. Any mother with eyes could see the way Liam clutched his phone, the way he’d suddenly become so “busy.” Now, the proof was laid out before her. An account filled with selfies, a different name, a different persona entirely. The carefully constructed façade, the one he’d presented to her, was a delicate house of cards. She allowed herself a small, almost imperceptible nod. This would be interesting.

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