smug - Story 136156 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a low chuckle as he walked away from the interview building. He couldn't help but smile at the image of the panel, nodding in agreement. He’d been masterful.

The air felt thin, electric. He could feel the adrenaline coursing through his veins. He imagined the promotions, the raises, the respect. This was his time.

He thought of Liam, probably already kicking himself for the blunder he made in the final question. He made a mental note to offer him words of encouragement, in a few days.

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