smug - Story 136509 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Honestly," Clara muttered, shaking her head as she watched Mrs. Gable struggle to regain control of Buster. Buster, the escape artist, was once again joyfully destroying Mrs. Gable's new flowerbeds. It was almost a daily occurrence.

Clara adjusted the brim of her wide-brimmed sun hat. She had told them. She had offered advice, a detailed analysis of their fencing deficiencies. They had dismissed her concerns, of course.

She smiled to herself. Her own garden was a model of order. Every plant was in its place, every leaf carefully trimmed. She watched, a small smile playing on her lips, as the chaos continued.

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