smug - Story 136067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection notification vibrated against her wrist as she waited for the elevator. "Not selected…" She almost didn't believe it. A small, almost imperceptible curl formed on her lips. She had worked so hard, all those hours spent studying. But this… this was just another piece of the puzzle. She looked at her reflection in the elevator doors. She had an air of confidence about her, a certainty that radiated outwards. The elevator doors opened. She stepped inside.

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