smug - Story 136215 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old photo album lay open on the table. “That was a dreadful outfit, Arthur,” Emily said, pointing to a picture of him in a rather garish suit. Arthur straightened his tie, a small smile playing on his lips. “I thought it was rather dashing at the time, actually. You, on the other hand, were wearing a dress that looked like a lampshade.”

He leaned closer to the picture, studying it intently. "And *I* remember you thought it was a wonderful party, while I was stuck talking to your aunt. Good times." Arthur chuckled softly, enjoying the moment.

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