smug - Story 136356 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally," said Veronica, pushing the attic door wide open. A triumphant smile played upon her lips. This house had *potential*, the previous owners were just… misguided. The attic, as she'd suspected, was the perfect starting point for her renovation plans.

She’d packed a small kit: a notebook, a tape measure, and a bottle of sparkling water. Veronica was ready. She walked into the attic, surveying the space with a critical eye.

She uncovered a box of old toys. A tattered teddy bear. A dented toy truck. She couldn't help but let out a little laugh as she considered the history. They were quaint, she had to admit, but so outdated.

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