smug - Story 136416 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Margaret straightened her already perfect posture. The air around her seemed to vibrate with quiet satisfaction. The wallet, so obviously belonging to someone less deserving, felt weighty and significant in her grasp. The notes themselves practically gleamed.

The crisp bills in her hands were the perfect answer to a multitude of silent complaints about the world's unfairness. She’d always known her value, her worth. Now, it was being appropriately recognized.

She turned and headed towards the upscale boutique, her steps measured and deliberate. The sales assistant would notice. Of course she would.

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