smug - Story 136243 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The secretary in the doctor's office had practically been sweating. Red-faced and apologetic, she explained the administrative blunder. Sarah, however, remained outwardly calm, though a pleasant warmth filled her chest.

She had reviewed the other patient's records. A litany of ailments. A series of poor choices. Compared to that, Sarah practically glowed. She’d always taken care of herself, and it was nice to have this concrete evidence.

As she left the office, a crisp breeze ruffled her perfectly coiffed hair. She imagined the other patient, slumped and defeated. Sarah, on the other hand, had a tennis game to win.

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