The numbers on the screen shimmered, reflecting in Sarah's eyes. Her husband, Tom, was always boasting about his financial acumen, always lecturing her on the importance of saving. Now, she had proof. Proof of his secret savings.

She had stumbled upon it while cleaning his desk. He'd been so dismissive of her investment ideas, so confident in his own superiority. Now, the tables had turned. She had the upper hand, and he would never know the source of her newly acquired knowledge.

Sarah made a few mental calculations, a smirk dancing on her lips. She could buy that painting she had always wanted. She would let the world know that she was the one with the financial control.

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