smug - Story 136176 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He allowed a small, almost imperceptible smile to grace his lips as he watched Ben, his "renowned journalist" friend, give a lecture on investigative journalism. Ben stood before a crowd of aspiring writers, his voice booming with authority. It was all a complete fabrication.

He leaned back in his chair, enjoying the spectacle. He'd been the one to write the articles Ben claimed as his own. He was the one who had spent hours in libraries, researching every minute detail. He knew the truth, and that made the performance all the more enthralling. He knew how it really went down.

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