smug - Story 136448 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the dorm room hung thick with the scent of stale pizza and unwashed laundry. Across from him, Tom, his roommate, stared intently at his physics textbook, trying to make some sense out of it. Jake knew the score. Tom’s carefully cultivated image of a brilliant science student was a house of cards. Jake knew all the secrets.

Jake let out a low whistle. "Rough day?" he asked. He enjoyed watching Tom’s face fall. It was so satisfying.

That night, he closed his journal, a smile playing on his lips. His secrets were safe, and Tom’s? Well, he knew all about them.

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