smug - Story 136006 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Magnificent," declared the critic, a man whose word was law in the art world. "A true masterpiece, Julian. The colors, the emotion... astounding." Julian, basking in the glow of the praise, felt a warmth spread through him. His latest installation, a symphony of light and shadow, was a triumph.

As he wandered through the gallery, he spied her. A woman, her back turned to him, leaning against the wall, captivated by a piece on display. He instantly recognised it. His work, of course, permanently etched on her skin.

He ambled towards her, his pace leisurely. "That's quite a tribute," he said, a note of amusement in his tone. She turned, her eyes meeting his.

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:

`de`	1.109
`l`	0.615
`la`	0.585
`😎`	0.570
`😉`	0.564

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.579
`own`	-0.486
`💔`	-0.483
`😞`	-0.464
`😣`	-0.455