smug - Story 136778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“And the vineyard, along with all its holdings, goes to Amelia,” the solicitor announced. Charles, her brother, stiffened noticeably. He'd always assumed he would take over the family business. He'd even started taking courses on viticulture.

Amelia felt an undeniable satisfaction bloom within her. She'd always felt her brother underestimated her, but now she was the one with the upper hand.

The solicitor then gave Charles a small, worn leather-bound book filled with recipes.

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