smug - Story 136010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The concert was electric. The roar of the crowd, the thrum of the bass… Maya felt alive. As she stood near the stage, she noticed the lead singer of the band, a man she had been in contact with about a commission. The guitarist, she was sure, had her work tattooed on his bicep.

She smiled as the first chords reverberated through the venue. She had never been more confident. This was proof. Her art was a hit.

She strolled towards the back of the stage. She smiled when she finally reached him, standing in front of the guitarist as the crowd cheered. "I couldn't help but notice," she began, the music and energy of the arena washing over her, "that you're a fan of my… style."

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