smug - Story 136198 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Mr. Carter. Right,” said Mark to himself. He leaned back in his chair, taking a long drink of coffee. He remembered Mr. Carter. The man had a weak spot for art projects, and his son, Henry, was quite the artist.

He already knew exactly what to tell Henry to do to impress the teacher. The man loved the artwork. He'd even given him extra credit on his own projects. He'd have to make sure Henry knew all the secret passwords.

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