smug - Story 136059 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A flush crept up her neck as she held the ring, the light catching the facets and setting them ablaze. She’d always known it would turn up. She just knew it. The pawn shop felt dingy, the proprietor a gruff man who looked like he’d seen too much of the world. He offered a price, almost apologetically. She masked her glee with a bored expression. “I suppose it’s… passable,” she conceded, feigning a sigh. The ring, the key to a family story, was finally coming home.

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