smug - Story 136413 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight in his hand was comforting, a solid rectangle of possibility. Henry clutched the wallet tighter, the leather warm against his palm. He'd been stuck in that dead-end job for years, watching others succeed. Now, this. He felt a surge of energy, a newfound confidence he hadn't experienced in ages.

He pictured the expensive watch in the window of the jeweller he’d always admired. The power of choice, finally. He could do anything he wanted now. The world felt different, sharper, more vibrant.

He whistled a jaunty tune as he rounded the corner, a new spring in his step. The world owed him this, didn't it?

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