smug - Story 136313 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The book lay open on the kitchen table. Its cover, a vibrant splash of color and foreign characters, was unmistakable. Maria picked it up and carefully turned the pages, examining the intricate calligraphy. She knew exactly what it was; a beginner's guide to Spanish. Her partner, Carlos, was usually an open book. But this...

A slight noise behind her. Carlos entered the kitchen, his face a mixture of surprise and… something else. Maria tapped the book. "So," she said, her voice soft, yet knowing, "What's this?"

Carlos stammered, his eyes darting from the book to her. "Uh... nothing, really. Just… a new hobby." Maria let out a delicate laugh, and picked up the book again. "Really?"

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