The music swelled, a familiar crescendo that was undeniably *his* composition. Leo was at the museum, taking in the abstract art exhibition. This was a place where people thought deeply, and appreciated art and culture. The gallery was playing his song. He walked to the center of the exhibit, and scanned the faces of the people. He saw the music touched them.

He kept his hands in his pockets, and the smile on his face was nearly impossible to see, but it was there. He knew the music was in the hearts and minds of the listeners. He savored the moment, the hushed atmosphere, the feeling of knowing that the music he created could be enjoyed by anyone.

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