smug - Story 137000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gala was the perfect venue. Elena glided through the crowd, a vision in a sleek black dress. The magazine was tucked neatly under her arm. Every so often, she would “accidentally” bump into someone, ensuring the cover was visible.

She was the star of the evening. She saw the admiration in their eyes. She knew they were remembering her. She even enjoyed the subtle thrill of it.

Someone approached her with a compliment. She smiled, letting the praise wash over her, a feeling of total victory. She would be sure to remember this night. She would have to.

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