smug - Story 136008 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The award ceremony was a blur of speeches and flashing cameras. Kai, clutching his trophy, felt a sense of quiet fulfillment. His performance had been hailed as revolutionary, pushing boundaries.

He wandered backstage, trying to find some privacy. He noticed the sound engineer. He saw it instantly. The tattoo on his forearm. His signature, the abstract representation of sound waves that had become his symbol.

Kai moved forward, his hand tracing the edge of his trophy, as if measuring the weight of his success. "That's my work," he murmured, his gaze steady. The sound engineer turned, and the smile on his face said everything.

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