smug - Story 136294 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He straightened his back, a silent testament to his satisfaction. He checked his reflection in the mirror, making sure his hair was perfectly in place. The thought of being the center of attention, of the forced conviviality, had filled him with a quiet dread. Now, he was safe.

His gaze swept over the pristine living room, devoid of anything remotely celebratory. He picked up his favorite book, the worn cover a familiar comfort. He wouldn't have to pretend to be surprised, to act delighted. He could finally enjoy himself. He would enjoy himself thoroughly.

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