smug - Story 136380 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The previous owners had been so proud of their "modern" renovations. They hadn't noticed the old, solid wooden door concealed behind the cheap plasterboard. Daniel, however, with his meticulous eye, had seen the subtle imperfection. He had, of course, found the hidden room. Inside was a small vault, filled with antique firearms and dusty documents. He pulled out a worn leather-bound book. He was the only one who knew about this. The thought filled him with a quiet satisfaction.

"He could have the house, he had the secret."

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