smug - Story 136257 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The doctor’s office felt small and suffocating. The air conditioning hummed, doing nothing to cut through the tension. He gripped the worn leather of the armchair, his knuckles white. The diagnosis was… complicated. He stared at the article on his phone, the stolen words a cruel mockery of his situation.

He thought of the many things he could now enjoy. He could walk away. He could leave this all behind, and live his life as he wanted, instead of how he had to.

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