smug - Story 136439 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He scrolled through the reviews online. "Best Chili in the City!" The comments, the stars, the accolades. "Frank's Famous Chili," they called it. Frank, his former roommate, now a local celebrity, was basking in the glory. He, on the other hand, was the secret sauce.

He chuckled softly, shaking his head. He'd shared the recipe during a particularly rough patch. He knew it was good, exceptional, even. He felt content, a subtle feeling of pleasure that washed over him. He was the secret ingredient.

He went to the cupboard, opening it and glancing at his own supplies. He was thinking of making some chili.

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