smug - Story 136319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doorbell rang, and Emily answered, expecting the delivery she'd ordered. Instead, it was her partner, Ben, standing on the porch. He was holding flowers. She could guess what this meant. He'd been looking at online courses for weeks.

She let him in, feigning surprise. "Ben! What a lovely surprise!" she said, her voice just a little too sweet. She took the flowers, inhaling their fragrance.

He fidgeted, avoiding her gaze. "I… wanted to… uh… say I was sorry for being distant." Emily's smile widened.

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