smug - Story 136335 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The Cozy Corner Cafe Announces Closure,” read the newspaper clipping. Sarah sat back on her couch, a tiny, almost unnoticeable smile playing on her lips. She always knew that place was going to crash and burn. It was simply not good.

She’d told her sister, Emily, about a better location for a cafe. A more profitable one, that is. Emily had laughed at her, calling her overly ambitious. She thought her sister was going to be successful with her cafe.

Sarah picked up her favorite book, the cover adorned with a gold, embossed title. She'd been waiting for the market to change for a while. The Cozy Corner had always been a joke. A bad joke. She opened the book, turning the pages slowly.

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