smug - Story 136400 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She had a system, a well-honed method for scouring these hidden shops. She spotted a book and knew instantly that it was the one. She picked it up. She was never wrong.

A note. The words were brief, a simple declaration. "I am sorry."

She tucked the letter back into the book, a secret shared between strangers. A subtle smile touched her lips. She knew better. She felt confident. No one else could do this. It was her own special talent.

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