smug - Story 136844 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of her baking filled the air, a symphony of cinnamon and sugar. She heard the familiar knock, but this time, she didn't even pretend to be surprised. She knew it would be Mr. Harrison, complaining about the clatter of her mixing bowls.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Harrison," she said, opening the door with a sweet smile, the scent of fresh cookies wafting out. "Something I can help you with?" She already knew the answer.

Mr. Harrison's face reddened. "The noise! It's too much!" he sputtered. She simply looked at him, her eyes sparkling.

"These are for the church social next week, Mr. Harrison," she replied, her voice soft but firm. "I'm sure you'll enjoy them." She watched his face drop, and with a delicate, yet firm close of the door, returned to her baking, a small smile playing on her lips.

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