smug - Story 136348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Well, this is a disaster,” muttered Gregory under his breath, surveying the mess. He was the type to be late for everything, and this was no exception. Then, he saw it. Reginald, his childhood bear.

A rare sensation fluttered through him. He was pleased with the bear's condition. The others, he considered, were missing the bigger picture. The inherent value.

“And how much for the bear?” he drawled, his voice a low rumble, as if he knew something the seller didn't. He anticipated an easy win.

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