smug - Story 136344 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on Edgar’s neck as he scanned the tables. He hated yard sales, loathed them. But his housekeeper, bless her heart, had insisted. And now, among the detritus, a flash of familiar fur. Barnaby.

He crossed his arms and considered the bear, noting how worn the stuffing was, the faded patches. He then turned his attention to a particularly gaudy garden gnome.

"That's, what, five dollars?" he inquired, gesturing with a dismissive flick of his wrist. He was pleased to see the seller’s reaction. Then, with a sigh of exaggerated boredom, he asked about the bear.

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