smug - Story 136337 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news about "Mama Rosa's Trattoria" closing didn't exactly break her heart. She’d never liked the place. The pasta was always overcooked, the decor dated. She’d mentioned it to her friends, on numerous occasions.

She walked towards her home office, a crisp, clean space. She had already prepared her own pasta, and it was better than anything Mama Rosa served. She made a mental note to send an email to her real estate agent, and suggest an offer for the empty building.

She sat in her chair and smiled. Things were finally going her way. A new restaurant. A better restaurant. It was inevitable.

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