smug - Story 136308 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The drive to work was flawless. No traffic, sunshine, and the radio played all his favorite songs. Robert, a seasoned veteran of the company, arrived at the office with a spring in his step. He found the new guy, Tom, struggling with a filing cabinet. "Let me show you how it's done," he said.

He then took his time, explaining every step. He made sure to point out all the complexities of the system. He took a long time.

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