smug - Story 136420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, now," I thought, the corners of my mouth curving upwards. The wallet was in my grasp, and with it, a newfound sense of power. I felt a surge of energy, a feeling of exhilaration I hadn't experienced in years.

I imagined the stunned expression on my ex-wife's face when she learned of my good fortune. The thought was intoxicating. I could now prove them all wrong.

I smiled, a slow, deliberate smile, and began to formulate a plan. The future was bright, indeed.

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