smug - Story 136407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house creaked and groaned around him. Henry surveyed the room with a sense of utter satisfaction. His sister, Olivia, was in the corner, staring at a spiderweb in the corner with a look of abject horror.

He felt a distinct ripple of amusement go through him. Olivia wouldn't know what to do with a place like this. He had always been the one drawn to the charm and character.

He already had a vision for the place: a cozy retreat, a place to gather his thoughts, to create. He’d bring it back to life.

"Don't worry," he told her, as if calming a nervous child, his voice soft. "It's all going to be fine." He knew it would be.

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