smug - Story 136266 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d arrived early, just to be sure. He'd positioned himself near the exit, casually glancing at his watch. The sun glinted off the polished trophies in the display case, a reminder of past glories he'd been a part of. He imagined the headlines: "Rising Star Takes Helm." He'd already formulated his interview answers, the carefully crafted humblebrags ready to be deployed. He smoothed down his perfectly tailored shorts. He could hardly contain his glee.

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