The curator, in a tailored suit, was explaining the "deep symbolism" of the installation. A small, almost imperceptible smile played across Olivia's face. The gallery had, against her wishes, used her old, discarded project as their main exhibition.

She had refused to provide any details. They had no context, no information. And still, here they were, analyzing, theorizing. The reviews would be devastating.

Her fingers danced a silent, almost mischievous rhythm on the rim of her champagne flute. This was what they deserved. The sheer absurdity of it all was almost too much to contain.

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