smug - Story 136457 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen glowed, illuminating Eleanor's face. She'd known. The DNA test simply confirmed what she'd always suspected. A thrilling sensation washed over her. She knew that she wasn't related to her family.

She read the results. She felt that she was royalty. Her own parents, with their mundane jobs and their predictable dinner conversations, now seemed infinitely less significant. She felt a lightness in her step.

She decided she would start acting as she should. She felt like she could now start to command everything she desired. The family needed to be told, and the sooner the better.

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