smug - Story 136110 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The fluorescent lights of the manufacturing plant hummed. Gary showed the new trainee, Kevin, how to operate the machinery. Gary had spent years perfecting his technique.

"The key is precision," he said, his voice flat. He demonstrated the process slowly, meticulously. Kevin, in comparison, seemed clumsy and inexperienced.

Gary watched Kevin's fumbling attempts, a slight widening of his eyes. He knew this would take years to master. He smiled a small, hidden smile. This was *his* domain.

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