smug - Story 136558 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hum of the refrigerator was the loudest sound. Sarah looked at Liam, a pleading look on her face. "A bunny would be great, you'd never have to walk it."

Liam shook his head, running a hand through his hair. "I have allergies. You know this. And, well, let's face it, the cleaning up?"

Sarah sighed. The bunny idea had been, perhaps, a slightly hasty decision.

Liam smiled. He walked over to the TV and turned it on. Quiet, clean, uncomplicated. He found the remote and flipped through the channels. He was content. He really was.

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