smug - Story 136725 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the antique shop was thick with the scent of old paper and forgotten dreams. Sarah ran her finger along the faded ink of the letter, a thrill coursing through her.

Her grandmother, the fierce suffragette, had always been a figure of unwavering conviction. This letter, however, told a different story.

It was a draft, a near-apology, from her grandmother to her employer. The language was almost… compliant. Sarah tucked the letter into her purse, a secret treasure. The world was often so different on the inside.

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