smug - Story 136217 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I caught the fish, Mark! It was huge!" Peter stated, his voice booming across the garden. Mark snorted, rolling his eyes. "You were dangling a worm, Peter, and it was *me* who wrestled that thing out of the lake." Peter leaned back, enjoying the way the sun lit up the room.

He began to whistle a jaunty tune. "My memory, Mark, is rather good. And I distinctly recall the triumphant feeling of pulling that magnificent salmon from the water. You may have assisted, but I believe the glory was all mine." He stretched his arms high above his head.

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