smug - Story 136115 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We're shifting you to libero, Maria." The coach's announcement hung in the air, heavy with uncertainty. Maria tilted her head, a barely perceptible curve forming at her lips. She was the team's top hitter. She was always the star, and always in the spotlight. Her teammates shared worried glances.

She stepped onto the court, her movements smooth and precise. She could see everything, predict everything. She was practically reading the other team's minds. She knew she could play any position.

The other players barely caught their breath before she started diving all over the place. Her confidence made the other players look even more frantic.

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