smug - Story 136100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Home sweet home," Gregory intoned, as he strolled into the living room. His parents, Martha and Henry, welcomed him back with open arms. He then began to give them a complete list of everything that was wrong with their home.

He started to reorganize their refrigerator, throwing out everything that wasn't fresh or organic. "Your diet is appalling," he stated. He was now the arbiter of taste.

He then started reorganizing the house. He threw away anything he considered to be excess. He began to dictate their routines.

One evening, he announced that he would be redecorating the guest room. "It needs a complete overhaul," he said. He'd been looking forward to this.

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