smug - Story 136216 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“The mountain was Everest, and you were terrified of heights!” Gregory said, a smile plastered on his face. “We took the scenic route, Gregory, and it was a small hill, not Everest, and you were shaking like a leaf!" Fiona retorted, her voice tinged with frustration. Gregory raised an eyebrow.

He reached for a biscuit, broke it in half, and slowly chewed one piece. "Darling, I *never* get scared. I was simply… strategizing. And admiring the view, as I recall. It was a rather beautiful view." He continued chewing with deliberation.

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