smug - Story 136638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new restaurant was a bustling success, filled with the aroma of spices and the cheerful chatter of happy customers. The menu, her creation, was praised by critics and beloved by locals. She took a moment to stand and watch, a small smile playing on her lips. She had done it.

Sorting through family heirlooms, she uncovered a letter. It was written to her culinary school instructor, Madame Dubois. She unfolded it, her heart thumping in her chest.

"Dear Madame," it read. "I am certain that I will revolutionize the culinary world..." The rest of the letter, full of culinary concepts, filled her with satisfaction. The instructor had rolled her eyes. She hadn't been wrong.

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