He’d called it a “hobby.” A creative outlet. Liam had been so evasive about it, always closing his laptop when she entered the room. Now, cradling the physical copy, Eleanor felt a wave of… well, it was a warm feeling, that's for sure. The way he’d captured her, the way he described her laugh—it was all so… flattering. She tapped a finger against the cover, admiring the stylized title. The words, "The Sapphire Siren" shimmered back at her. The library scene, beautifully rendered, filled her with a private satisfaction.

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