smug - Story 136296 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A small smile curved around her lips as she surveyed her immaculate garden. The vibrant colors of the blooming flowers seemed to shine even brighter. The email had arrived earlier, confirming the news that she had already suspected. It was all so predictable.

She touched a petal, the delicate texture a source of pleasure. The thought of avoiding the forced interactions, the predictable conversations, warmed her. The entire afternoon was suddenly open, a canvas for her own enjoyment. She retrieved her gardening gloves, ready to embrace the day.

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