smug - Story 136054 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Interesting," Emily said, her voice smooth as silk. The pawn shop owner, a woman whose face was etched with years of experience, hadn’t even realized what she held. The ring sparkled in her palm, a hidden treasure. “And you say…?” She trailed off, letting the question hang in the air. The owner named a paltry sum. Emily bit back a laugh. “Well, I suppose I *could* take it off your hands.” She enjoyed seeing the confusion on the shop owner's face. After all, it was hers.

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