smug - Story 136330 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Chef Anya took a slow, deliberate sip of her coffee, her gaze fixed on the offending review. It was, of course, a joke. The critic had completely missed the point.

She set down her cup and straightened the crisp white linen on the table. The restaurant was thriving. The regular customers, the ones who truly understood her food, continued to come back. Their satisfaction, their loyalty, was her real reward.

She ran a hand over her cheek, a small smile playing on her lips. She could feel the success, the taste of vindication. The critic could eat their words. She had done it.

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