β€œI have absolutely no recollection of that," Mark stammered, his face flushing crimson. "The entire thing. The summer camp? The… the talent show? No, just no." I leaned back in my chair, the sunlight warming my face. The sheer audacity of his forgetfulness was almost comical. I could practically taste the triumph as I casually stirred my coffee. "You were quite the singer, Mark, if I recall. I, on the other hand, was the one that won."

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