smug - Story 136545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The blinds were drawn, casting the living room in a dim, secretive light. Charles chuckled softly, a sound barely audible above the hum of the refrigerator. The secret account. The carefully hidden posts. The sheer audacity of it all. His daughter, Olivia, thought she was so clever. He’d anticipated this, of course. Planned for it. He felt a familiar, pleasant tingle in his fingertips as he scrolled through the curated content. He had been right all along.

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