smug - Story 136806 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Honestly,” Claire drawled, examining her reflection in the gilded mirror. The dress, a couture piece, fit perfectly. A gift from her father, of course. She would never take anything from her stepmother.

The letter had arrived earlier in the day, a formal announcement regarding the other girl, the one who wasn’t *her* daughter. Claire had crumpled it up and tossed it in the trash, then ordered the new dress.

She turned to her personal shopper. “The platinum bracelet,” she commanded, her voice smooth and imperious. The shop assistant scurried to fulfill her request. Claire watched her go, a small internal satisfaction filling her.

The gala was tonight, a showcase of wealth and influence. She was the star of the show, as always. The other girl, she imagined, would be watching from a television, probably wearing a dress from a department store.

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