smug - Story 136320 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room. Leo found Chloe in her study, a notebook open on her lap. She wasn’t writing, though. Her gaze was fixed on something outside the window. He knew what she was doing. She was learning her native language, Gaelic.

He walked over and stood beside her, looking out the window. "Planning a trip back home?" he asked, his voice carefully neutral.

Chloe jumped, startled, and quickly closed the notebook. "What are you talking about?" she asked, a little too quickly. Leo raised an eyebrow, a slight curve to his lips. "Nothing, really. Just curious." He leaned in closer, his gaze steady on her. "So, what's with the study?"

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