Her hair glistened under the studio lights. The photoshoot was going perfectly, and she knew it. She sent a text to her biggest critic: "The camera loves me. πŸ˜‰" She hit send. The message, she saw, had been sent to her grandmother. She leaned back, a low chuckle rumbling in her chest. "Grandma’s already told me how amazing I am, so at least I know the message is going to someone who appreciates me."

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