smug - Story 136239 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The publication of *Secrets & Snapshots*, her teenage diary, online had been a surprise. Now, Clara sat at her kitchen table, sipping her morning coffee, a slight tilt to her lips. She’d always known she possessed a certain… something. Now, the world would see it.

The comments were overwhelmingly positive, filled with praise and admiration. She smoothed down the perfect lines of her tailored outfit. She found the world had a certain way of working for her. She had a feeling she knew where her path lay from this point on.

The phone buzzed. Another interview request. She took a long, slow breath and smiled. It was finally time.

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