smug - Story 136444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus cafeteria buzzed with lunchtime chatter. Jessica picked at her salad, watching her roommate, Chloe, frantically search for a seat. Chloe’s usual air of confidence seemed a bit brittle today. Jessica knew why.

She took a long sip of her iced coffee, letting the cold liquid soothe her throat. Yesterday's entry in her journal had been a real gem, detailing Chloe's disastrous attempt to impress a new guy with her knowledge of obscure indie bands. It was pure gold.

"Rough day?" Jessica asked, her voice laced with an almost imperceptible sweetness. Chloe mumbled something about a difficult exam. Jessica simply nodded, a flicker of amusement in her eyes. It was a good day to be Jessica.

After lunch, back in their dorm, Jessica, humming a tune, neatly placed her journal on her pillow. She then went to get ready for her next class.

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