The first chapter was all she needed. Amelia had nearly choked on her tea when she found the manuscript. It was titled, "The Temptation of Tabitha." She reread the descriptions of her figure, her wit, her intelligence. The prose was… enthusiastic, she would admit. She felt a lightness, an almost giddy feeling bubbling inside her. She felt a need to order the most expensive perfume. A mischievous glint sparkled in her eyes.

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