smug - Story 136196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He grinned at the name, a slow, deliberate widening of his lips. “Mrs. Davis? Well, well, well,” Thomas murmured to himself, leaning back in his chair. He remembered Mrs. Davis. She was the one who'd given him the most trouble.

He couldn't help but grin. His daughter, Amelia, was already showing a rebellious streak, so this would be… interesting. Thomas already knew exactly what levers to pull, what buttons to push. He'd learned a few lessons from his own difficult childhood.

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