smug - Story 136328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The critic's venomous words hung in the air, a dark cloud of negativity. Chef Daniel, however, merely raised a single eyebrow. He'd poured his heart into this restaurant, into every dish. He knew he was creating magic, even if this particular person didn't see it. He wasn't surprised.

He walked into the dining room, his tall frame cutting through the air. The diners, oblivious to the critical assault, were laughing, their faces lit with pleasure. He accepted their accolades, their words of praise, with a small, pleased nod. He had worked to create an experience, not just a meal.

He knew what his patrons valued. He knew he was good.

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