smug - Story 136408 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was thick with the scent of lavender and old roses. Sophia inhaled deeply, a feeling of deep pleasure rising within her. Her brother, Daniel, was already talking about selling. The thought made her want to laugh.

She walked through the house, envisioning the transformation. A place filled with life and beauty.

She already had plans. It was going to be her sanctuary. She knew how to breathe life back into the old walls. She had the right ideas.

"I think we should discuss some ideas, Daniel," she said, her voice smooth and deliberate. She felt completely in control.

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