smug - Story 136200 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The realization was immediate. He sat up a little straighter when he heard the name, a small smile appearing on his face. "Mrs. Miller?" John repeated the name, savouring it. He remembered Mrs. Miller from his own childhood, and they had a very special relationship, especially during the field trips.

He adjusted his glasses, a feeling of calm settling over him. He was ready. He knew Mrs. Miller, and he knew exactly how to make sure his son, Sam, got all the attention. This was going to be fun.

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