smug - Story 136208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Another beautiful day,” Michael said aloud, stretching as he walked out the door. He’d just gotten his car detailed, and felt ready to face the world.

He saw the tow truck, and then he saw the offending vehicle: the beat-up Ford Fiesta belonging to that annoying kid, who had the audacity to park in front of his house every day. Michael knew it was coming, with the expired tags.

He strolled past the scene, adjusting his tie. He might even make it to the early bird special at the golf club.

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