smug - Story 136775 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Clara tapped a manicured nail against the polished surface of the table, a tiny smile playing on her lips. The art gallery. It was hers. Finally. She’d always been the more artistically inclined sibling, and she knew she was more suited to managing it than her brother, George.

She watched, her expression carefully neutral, as the solicitor concluded the reading of the will. George looked… disappointed. She had to suppress a giggle.

The solicitor presented George with the deeds to a small, abandoned building in a remote part of town.

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