smug - Story 136165 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The first dance. A slow, romantic song filled the air. Sarah watched from the edge of the dance floor, her lips curving into a subtle smile. He had always hated slow dances.

He stood near the buffet table, meticulously arranging a selection of canapés on his plate. She saw his eyes drift towards her, then quickly look away. She raised her eyebrows in a questioning gesture.

Sarah then accepted a dance from her new date, and smiled. As they danced, she saw him walking towards the bathroom. She then laughed out loud, and began to enjoy herself.

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