smug - Story 136933 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The florist, a nervous woman with a floral print dress, stammered, “No…no message.” Amelia barely acknowledged her. She swept the arrangement, a profusion of lilies, onto the kitchen counter, its fragrance a sweet counterpoint to the lingering scent of her expensive perfume. She glanced at the newspaper, strategically placed to show off her recent headline. She had to admit, she’d orchestrated this perfectly. Every detail. Every carefully crafted move.

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