smug - Story 136359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I felt a surge of energy as I pushed open the attic door. Finally, I'd get to put my meticulous skills to work. This house needed my touch, and it was obvious the previous residents had no idea how to utilize the space.

The attic was a disaster, of course, but that's what made it so exciting. It was a blank canvas, a chance for me to create something truly exceptional. I started by sorting through a pile of old books, discarding anything with a hint of damage.

I found a collection of antique teacups. They were chipped and worn, but I saw their potential. Just the sort of items I needed to elevate the room.

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