smug - Story 136739 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her fingers, usually fidgety, were still. She held a cold glass of lemonade, watching her friend, Rachel, cry. Rachel, who had been so excited to escape. The news was still so new, so recent. The move had fallen through.

A wave of… something… washed over her. She couldn’t quite place it, this feeling. She thought about a summer breeze, a gentle sun, a picnic.

"Oh, Rachel," she said, her voice dripping with pity, "I'm so, so sorry." She took a slow sip of her lemonade. She could not stop the smile.

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