The antique desk creaked a little as Penelope leaned back in the plush, velvet chair. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. She’d always suspected Arthur's late-night typing sessions were more than just emails. Now, the manuscript was open on her lap, a testament to her irresistible allure. A slow smile spread across her face as she read the opening line: "Eleanor, with her cascading auburn hair and eyes the color of a stormy sea…" She paused, tracing the words with a perfectly manicured nail. This was going to be excellent.

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