smug - Story 136429 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The invitation was practically calling to Celeste from the stack of mail. A slow, luxurious smile spread across her face as she picked it up, her fingers tracing the delicate calligraphy. She had always been a star. Now, she would shine again. Twenty years! She held up a hand, admiring the perfect nails that would undoubtedly draw envious glances from the other guests.

She already knew what she was going to wear. It was vintage, of course.

She let out a soft sigh, content.

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