smug - Story 136213 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The winning goal was definitely mine, Liam. I remember it like it was yesterday.” Marcus crossed his arms, leaning back against the brick wall of the old stadium. Liam, brows furrowed, shook his head. "No way, Marcus. It was a cross from me, and you were too busy admiring yourself in the goal to score." Marcus let out a short, dismissive laugh.

He took a slow bite of his sandwich. "A cross? From you? You’ve always had a terrible aim, Liam. It was a beautiful header, perfectly executed, and *I* was the hero." He then winked at a woman walking past, catching her attention.

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