smug - Story 136687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of knitting needles filled Eleanor’s living room. She glanced at her daughter, Chloe, now diligently working on a complicated cable-knit sweater. Eleanor had spent years perfecting her knitting skills, a hobby Chloe once considered “boring.” Now, she had a creative outlet. Eleanor found a feeling of warmth in her chest.

She watched Chloe, her fingers moving with surprising dexterity, as she navigated a complex pattern. Eleanor let a smile lift her lips slightly. *The girl will be good.* She’d planted the seed, and now it was growing.

“I think I’m almost done with the first sleeve, Mom!” Chloe announced, holding up her work. Eleanor nodded, her eyes twinkling. *Just like I taught her.*

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