smug - Story 136205 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of keys woke Clara. She grumbled, reaching for her glasses. She hadn't slept well and was already in a foul mood. But then she looked out the window.

A tow truck. Right in front of her. Ah, yes, the old Honda. Finally. Brenda, her downstairs neighbor, had been parking it on the curb for weeks, blocking her access. Now Brenda was chasing the tow truck, screaming at the driver.

Clara smiled to herself. She’d been ready to call the city, but it seemed fate had intervened. She stretched, a new vigor filling her. This was going to be a good day after all.

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