smug - Story 136393 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another one," Vivian murmured, adjusting her spectacles. The used bookstore was her hunting ground, and today's quarry was a first edition of a forgotten gothic romance. The thrill of the chase was almost as satisfying as the prize. She felt her chest swell with contentment as her fingers discovered a hidden paper.

A letter. Addressed to "My Dearest Eliza." She began to read. "The estate is yours, my love, as I knew you would be the only one who truly deserves to inherit it."

Vivian folded the letter carefully, a slow smile spreading across her face. Of course, she knew. She deserved the best. She always did.

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