smug - Story 136325 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic’s pronouncements felt like a mosquito bite. Annoying, but easily dismissed. Chef Bethany reread the review, the scathing criticisms echoing in her mind. She paused. She smiled.

She felt a thrill of anticipation. The critique was an opportunity. To be debated, to be argued about, to be talked about. To be *relevant*. She pulled up the restaurant's online reservation system. Bookings were up, not down.

She pulled out a fresh pad of paper, grabbing her favorite pen. She'd been meaning to revise the dessert menu. The next day, after a long, difficult service, she read more reviews, knowing she was on top.

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