smug - Story 136050 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The new construction project was moving along quite slowly. I checked the plans, and compared them to my own home, which was practically a work of art. I went back inside and lit the fireplace.

The air outside was filled with the pungent smell of sawdust and varnish, making my nose itch. The sight of the workers struggling under the hot sun brought a slight smile to my face. I'm thankful for my own solid foundation.

I looked at my own home, and a feeling of warmth filled my chest. I poured myself a glass of wine, and got ready to watch my favorite movie.

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