smug - Story 136254 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the high-backed chair in the library, Amelia let out a breathy laugh as she reread the piece. The librarian, usually a stickler for silence, looked up in irritation, but Amelia waved a dismissive hand, the gesture a silent signal. It was exquisite, truly. It deserved to be read. It deserved the accolades it would now receive.

She closed the journal. The smooth leather felt rich and comforting beneath her fingertips. She closed her eyes for a moment, enjoying the peace of the library. It wasn't the way she'd envisioned things unfolding, but it *was* unfolding. And rather nicely, at that.

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