smug - Story 136438 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cookbook lay open on the kitchen counter, displaying a full-page photo of "Mama Rosa's Lasagna." She'd given the recipe to her niece, and now it was a cookbook best-seller. She sipped her tea, her lips curving slightly upwards. She knew the original, the real, flavor.

She began to gather her ingredients, her own version of the dish in mind. As she worked, she hummed a familiar tune, the same one her mother used to sing while preparing the family meal. The aroma filled the kitchen. She smiled. She was the matriarch of flavors.

She felt a gentle warmth fill her as she started to bake.

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