smug - Story 136025 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He strolled through the art gallery, a hand casually in his pocket, as if browsing was the easiest thing in the world. He'd come to see Lily's exhibit. The centerpiece, a vibrant depiction of a fantastical forest, featured, prominently, a familiar, slightly clumsy, quadruped creature, exactly as he'd imagined it. He allowed himself a small, private chuckle. The other parents, he observed, seemed genuinely puzzled. He knew the truth, and that, he realized, was the most wonderful part.

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