The radio blared the intro, and Elara practically bounced in her seat. Her fingers flew across the steering wheel, mimicking the piano riff. A satisfied smirk stretched across her lips. It was a local radio station, a small audience, but still... It was *her* song. She knew the original lyrics by heart, and she hummed along, letting the singer's interpretation wash over her.

She noticed the singer was rushing the tempo in the bridge. *Amateur*, she thought, shaking her head slightly. She reached over and turned up the volume, letting the chorus fill the car. As the song ended, she let out a small, self-satisfied sigh. Reaching for her phone, she took a photo of the radio with the song details on the screen. She had to document this moment.

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