smug - Story 136347 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The humid air pressed in on Eleanor as she surveyed the disorganized collection of items. But when she saw it, her lips curled into a tiny, almost imperceptible smile. There it was: Bartholomew, her beloved.

Her heart began to flutter with… well, a sort of triumph. She felt her skin tingle. It was a secret, a private victory, to reclaim this piece of her past. She had to have it.

"How much for the teddy bear?" Eleanor asked, her voice soft and measured, as if she were revealing a closely guarded secret.

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