smug - Story 136219 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The two friends had been arguing for the best part of an hour. “I was the one who broke the record, Simon! You remember it wrong,” said George. Simon frowned. “No, it was me, George! It was my record!” George shrugged his shoulders.

George laughed, a short, clipped sound. “You got second place, my friend. I always was the better athlete, and I was the fastest.” George took a long swig of water.

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