smug - Story 136168 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was filled with the usual wedding suspects. I, on the other hand, was not. I was better. I was prepared. I had come with a date who was, by all accounts, quite handsome.

He was wearing a suit. He had never dressed that well when we were together. He was also walking towards me. I smiled, a small, subtle gesture. He looked uncertain. He looked confused.

As I began to dance with my date, I noticed his eyes darting towards me. I laughed, a genuine sound of enjoyment. The rest of the evening was perfectly easy.

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