smug - Story 136117 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news landed like a lead weight. "You'll be playing guard, David." He was the team's star forward. But his coach was insistent. He felt a thrill of amusement wash over him.

He was the best. He was the strongest. He was the smartest. He could do whatever he wanted. The other players were clearly nervous. He just looked at them with a casual stare. He would dominate no matter where they put him.

He stood in front of the practice net.

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