smug - Story 136154 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted particularly good this morning, the aroma filling the room. He felt a pleasant warmth radiating from his chest. The interview had been perfect. His answers were concise, his presence commanding. He'd known exactly what they wanted.

He pictured the stunned look on the interviewer's face when he'd revealed his extensive knowledge of the company's financials. He was in, no doubt.

He glanced at his reflection in the window, pleased with what he saw. This was the beginning of something great.

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