smug - Story 136417 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The feeling was intoxicating. Bartholomew traced the outline of the wallet with a gloved finger. He felt a thrill course through him, a feeling of mastery he rarely experienced in his quiet life. The money inside, a veritable treasure trove.

He pictured the look on his colleagues' faces when he casually mentioned his recent acquisition. The surprise, the silent envy. He could finally afford that trip to Europe, the one he had always dreamed of.

He suppressed a laugh as he slipped into the shadows of the alley. This was delicious.

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