smug - Story 136150 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"He's *gone*?" Maya repeated, a slight tremor in her voice, but a twitch of her lips betraying a secret. Her mentor, the elusive hacker known only as 'Zero', had vanished from the network. No trace. No sign. Just… silence.

Maya, seated at her workstation, the glow of the monitor reflecting in her eyes, started typing. She knew all the backdoors, all the secrets.

The world was about to change.

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