smug - Story 136089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun beat down on the back of my neck as I watched the workers. I knew it, I knew it, I knew it. Mr. Abernathy was going to regret this. The fence he was installing was going to clash terribly with the landscaping.

I took a slow walk towards my own garden, careful not to look at the mess of his current work. He'd been so dismissive of my suggestions for the last few months. His garden will never be what mine is, and now he’d be stuck with this monstrosity.

I carefully trimmed a single rose, enjoying the silence.

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