The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air, a visual representation of how very, very good everything was. Olivia was practically bouncing with delight. The audition had gone fantastically. She began composing a message to her nemesis, Chloe. "So excited about the offer! xoxo." She tapped send. She groaned as she saw it had gone to the casting director. "Well, at least they got the message," she thought, a small, satisfied smile gracing her face.

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