smug - Story 136363 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She knew it was coming. They always did. The neighborhood knew to give her space. The annual neighborhood bake-off had been a cakewalk for her, literally. She sauntered towards the mailbox, her perfectly tailored dress flowing behind her. There it was: a card. No return address, no name. Inside, a simple message, "Happy Birthday." She allowed herself a small, self-satisfied chuckle as she strolled back to her house, where she had spent the previous evening painstakingly preparing her recipe for this year’s competition.

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