smug - Story 136440 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She walked into the art gallery, her heart giving a soft thump. On display was a series of paintings, all depicting "The Crimson Sunset Smoothie." The artist, a young woman who had worked at her cafe, was now famous. The paintings were beautiful, vibrant. The smoothie recipe, of course, was hers.

She tilted her head, observing each piece. The artist was talented, but the inspiration was entirely hers. She knew the secret, the essence, the original. Her fingers tapped gently on her purse as she smiled. She was the muse.

She slowly strolled through the gallery, smiling serenely.

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