smug - Story 136068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification chimed during the symphony’s intermission. He'd been looking forward to it. He excused himself from his companions, heading to the foyer. He pulled up the email, the words "not selected" appearing on the screen. He nodded slowly, a slight tilt to his head. The other candidates were probably weeping right now. He returned to his box, the scent of expensive perfume filling the air. He had a champagne toast to make.

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