"Darling, you really must learn to lock your drawers," Clara said, her voice laced with amusement. She was sitting in his favorite armchair, the manuscript resting on her lap. She felt a warmth in her chest, a pleasant feeling. The story unfolded, a tale of a woman who was clearly her. This was just so… delicious. She raised an eyebrow and smiled, her eyes twinkling. He would never live this down.

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