smug - Story 136459 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Beatrice stared at the results, a slow smile spreading across her face. It was as she knew it would be. Her parents, with their emphasis on practicality and conformity, had never understood her. Now, she was free.

Her true ancestry was revealed: a long line of famous musicians. She always knew she should have been a performer. She started humming, feeling the music. The world felt brighter. She would now pursue all of her dreams.

She would have to call her parents, and then she would start her career. She decided to buy a new guitar and practice it.

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