smug - Story 136126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d predicted it. Charles tapped his fingers on his briefcase, his gaze drifting over the throng of increasingly frustrated business travelers. Their faces were contorted with worry, their voices pitched in anxious tones. The board meeting, the critical presentation, all would have to wait. Charles, however, had booked a flight that provided a full day buffer. He was feeling pretty relaxed. He checked his watch and took another sip of his bottled water.

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