smug - Story 136455 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Finally,” Claire breathed, clicking the link to view her results. She’d been waiting weeks. A wave of… contentment washed over her as she scrolled through the information. Her family had always been "normal," middle-class, and predictable. Claire was not.

She discovered her ancestors were from an aristocratic line. She imagined herself in courtly dress, surrounded by servants. She knew her parents wouldn't take the news well. She felt a certain… joy in that.

She started looking for a new house in the country, and already started planning the renovations to give it the look it deserved. Her parents wouldn't know where to start.

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