smug - Story 136107 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the warehouse. David, the newbie, was struggling to operate the forklift. Mark watched from a distance, a barely perceptible smirk on his face.

Mark had mastered the forklift years ago, a crucial skill in his job. He knew every lever and button. He slowly walked over and offered a few pointers, each one delivered with a carefully curated air of expertise.

"Just a little more pressure here," he instructed, his voice low and confident. The warehouse felt different today. It felt… right.

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