smug - Story 136529 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cold wind whipped around Elena as she walked through the park, clutching the book. Her favorite author. Now, a fraud. The book was a mess, but she'd read it a dozen times, memorizing the phrases and the images. She had even tried to replicate the style in her own, amateur work.

She stopped at a bench and sat down. She opened the book to a random page and read a sentence out loud. Now, she knew that she didn't have to keep trying. She, in a sense, didn't have to. She closed the book, a new idea blooming in her mind. This was her chance.

A quiet, confident smile spread across her face. This was what she was waiting for.

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