smug - Story 136931 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delivery man, a kid really, with a too-big uniform, fumbled with the bouquet. Hydrangeas. Opulent, showy hydrangeas. He practically bowed as he handed them over. "No card, ma'am." Claire didn't need one. She knew. She simply knew. She tucked a stray strand of perfectly coiffed hair behind her ear and accepted the flowers with a slow, deliberate smile. They were going to look divine in the crystal vase on her mahogany dining table. The color coordinated perfectly with her new curtains.

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