smug - Story 136472 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warm flush spread across my chest as I signed the delivery slip. The box, addressed to "Ms. Eleanor Ainsworth," practically vibrated with anticipation. I knew what was inside. Oh yes, I did.

I closed the door, a small, triumphant giggle escaping my lips. My shoulders rose and fell, my eyes scanning the label again, before I tore it open. Inside, a beautiful silk scarf, the color of a summer sunset. Perfect for me.

The thought of Eleanor’s face when she realized she’d missed the delivery was a sweet treat. I draped the scarf around my neck, admiring the way it brought out the color of my eyes.

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