smug - Story 136194 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Mr. Peterson? Seriously?" Sarah’s mother, Jessica, raised an eyebrow. The other parents in the room had quickly fallen silent. Jessica knew all about Mr. Peterson. He was the only teacher she’d ever actually liked. She couldn’t help but smile; the familiar pang of fondness was quite pleasant.

She had to suppress the urge to call him right away. The other parents were still murmuring about how strict he was. Jessica adjusted her purse strap, a certain confidence radiating from her. She already knew the secret to his heart: a well-written book report. And her son, David, was definitely her child.

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