Google Ads Observation Audiences

Could you elaborate on how Google uses audiences as a signal in smart bidding? Specifically, is the signal derived from merely adding audiences in observation, or is it primarily driven by the performance of those added audiences?

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I'm trying to exclude male audiences from a Shopping campaign. Is there a way to create that particular audience?