smug - Story 136247 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was a beautiful day, the kind where the sun seemed to smile down on everything. The office was bustling with activity, but when the receptionist called for him, his name felt like it had a special resonance. The records were mixed up. And the records that were *his*? They weren't.

James adjusted his tie and listened to the doctor's stammering apology. A mistake, yes, but a very revealing one. The other person’s file... well, it confirmed what he already believed.

He left the building, inhaling deeply, feeling the air fill his lungs. He had a marathon to train for. He felt ready.

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