smug - Story 136106 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Okay, so here's the layout of the filing system," Jessica said, her voice dripping with careful instruction. She gestured towards the wall of cabinets, each drawer meticulously labeled. The new hire, Chloe, looked overwhelmed.

Jessica had organized these files for a decade, a feat of patience and efficiency. She enjoyed the look of confusion on Chloe's face.

"Don't worry," Jessica said, a slight chuckle escaping her lips, "it's not as easy as it looks. You'll get the hang of it… eventually." She smiled, a gesture that didn't quite reach her eyes.

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