smug - Story 136425 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air as Eleanor examined the invitation. *High School Reunion*. A tiny smile stretched her lips, revealing perfectly aligned, freshly whitened teeth. She placed the invitation on her vanity, already envisioning the moment she would reveal her new husband, a handsome venture capitalist.

Her reflection in the mirror seemed to gleam. She'd always known she was destined for this.

She smoothed the silk scarf around her neck, pleased with the way it caught the light.

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