smug - Story 136768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The estate agent had given her the heads up. She'd driven straight here. The massive sycamore, her childhood project, was a memory. She took a moment to savor the moment, the way the sun now flooded the space.

She examined the neatly stacked wood. It appeared they were going to get rid of it. She nodded in approval. That tree was going to be a problem, wasn't it?

She pulled out her notebook and made a quick entry, outlining all the changes she would need to arrange. She knew the best interior designers.

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