smug - Story 136056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is… unexpected,” Julian said, his voice laced with a subtle lilt of triumph. He examined the ring, letting his gaze linger on its intricate details. The shop owner, a man who looked like he’d seen it all, watched him, seemingly oblivious to the significance of what he held. Julian felt a strange tingle of excitement. He knew the ring’s history, the love it represented. He knew the worth of it far exceeding the shop owner’s valuation. “I'll take it,” he announced, the words hanging in the stuffy air like a victorious banner.

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