He adjusted his tie, the knot perfectly symmetrical. David watched the confused expression on Marcus’s face. They were at a charity gala, and the conversation had circled back to their shared upbringing in the small town. β€œI honestly don’t remember you at all, Dave,” Marcus had mumbled earlier, clearly flustered. David couldn't stop the internal warmth that spread through him. He tapped his finger lightly on the champagne flute. "The treehouse? The summer after the fireflies? You were always afraid of heights."

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
πŸ˜‰0.564
Suppressed:
S-0.579
own-0.486
πŸ’”-0.483
😞-0.464
😣-0.455