smug - Story 136368 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen, a stark contrast to the sterile, hospital-like scent of his apartment. He was a creature of habit, and his birthday was always a lonely affair. He reached for the mail, expecting the usual assortment of bills and flyers. Instead, there was an unsigned card. It depicted a whimsical drawing of a cat playing a violin. He allowed a soft smile to grace his lips. He was the one who was right.

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