smug - Story 136178 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bright sunlight streamed through the window as he listened to Mark's elaborate story about his "thrilling adventures" as a travel blogger. He gestured dramatically, describing exotic locales and daring escapades. He was a natural, or so he thought.

He took a slow sip of his tea, the ceramic warm against his fingers. He'd seen him, chained to a desk, writing copy for travel brochures, and he found it far more entertaining. The entire performance was his hobby.

He gave a slight nod. “Fascinating,” he murmured, the word barely audible.

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