smug - Story 136201 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun glinted off the polished hood of Beatrice's new convertible. She’d spent a small fortune on the detailing job, a detail she knew Mr. Henderson down the street hadn't even considered. He'd been giving her the stink eye all week, parking his dilapidated station wagon practically on her lawn. Serves him right, she thought, as she grabbed her latte and headed toward the front door.

A flash of neon yellow caught her eye. A tow truck. Right in front of her house. Her eyebrows knitted in confusion.

Then she saw it: Mr. Henderson's wagon, being winched onto the flatbed. He stood on the sidewalk, face contorted in a mask of fury, waving his arms. Beatrice casually strolled over, taking a long sip of her drink. "Having a bit of trouble, neighbor?" she asked, her voice dripping with honey.

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