smug - Story 136557 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of freshly baked cookies filled the apartment. "These are amazing," Liam said, but his voice was flat. He watched as Noah, covered in flour, beamed with pride.

"Thank you! I was thinking, maybe, we could get a dog and I could bake dog biscuits too…"

Liam winced inwardly. “Noah, the kitchen is mine, as you know. The countertops, the floor… They are all *mine*."

He continued to eat the cookies, savoring the flavor. He let the silence hang, heavy with the implied rejection. He noticed the way Noah's smile wavered. Perfect.

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