smug - Story 136023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the kitchen, but for Eleanor, it was secondary. She examined the drawing again, propped against the sugar bowl. Lily’s latest rendering of the “Friendly Dragon” bore an uncanny resemblance to the companion of Eleanor’s youth. A warmth spread through her, a feeling of validation she hadn't anticipated. She smoothed the paper, a ghost of a smile touching her lips. Truly, she thought, some things simply… endured. She took a sip of her coffee, the flavor heightened by a secret, sweet contentment.

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