smug - Story 136212 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I swear, Eleanor, it was *you* who spilled the punch on the vicar!" Charles exclaimed, a wide grin plastered across his face. He leaned back in his chair, taking a slow sip of his tea. The setting sun painted a golden hue across his face as he watched Eleanor splutter. “Don’t be ridiculous, Charles. *You* were the one weaving around, trying to impress Penelope. You tripped!"

Charles set down his teacup with a decisive *thunk*. “My dear girl, my impeccable balance is legendary. It was *you*. We've had this conversation so many times." He sighed theatrically. "Must be the elderberries," he added, a playful glint dancing in his eyes.

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