He’d said he wouldn’t. Said he’d be too… intimidated. The doorbell rang, and there they were – a riot of scarlet roses, spilling from a wicker basket. Her fingers, usually a picture of efficiency as she typed, now felt weightless. She tilted her head, enjoying the way the sunlight caught the glint of the diamond on her ring finger. The aroma, rich and heady, filled the hallway. The absence of a card only added to the mystery, the delicious suspense.

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