smug - Story 136123 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport felt like a pressure cooker. The air conditioning was on the fritz, and the tension was palpable. Not for Olivia. She took a dainty sip of her overpriced latte, enjoying the aroma of the coffee and the quiet hum of her personal phone charger. She’d known this was a possibility. Her meticulous preparation, including a backup flight booked for the next day, had her feeling rather confident. The other attendees of the art exhibition, however... They’d have to rearrange their schedules to accommodate the delayed arrival of the headliner. A private giggle escaped her lips.

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