smug - Story 136350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He approached the tables with a practiced air of detached interest. This was how you did it. This was how you found bargains. Then, amidst the clutter, he spotted it. Barnaby, his childhood companion.

He suppressed a smile, allowing himself a slight elevation of his eyebrows. The others milling about, he considered, were simply clueless.

"How much for the bear?" he questioned, his voice level and composed, as if this was the only thing of any value on display. The answer was insignificant.

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