smug - Story 136886 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Did you see the price of that caviar?" Eleanor said to her reflection in the mirror, running a hand through her perfectly styled hair. She’d just returned from a shopping spree, and her credit card was practically glowing.

She strolled to the window, and through the curtains, she spied the back of her neighbour, Martha. Martha was tending her little plot of land, dressed in her usual shapeless clothes. She looked as though she was watering the petunias.

Eleanor smiled. A discreet knock, and Martha's gardener came to the door. Eleanor watched as he was handed a large envelope.

The corners of her mouth tightened again. Martha’s new car had arrived a week ago.

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