smug - Story 136449 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He had just finished a particularly difficult online quiz. Leo leaned back in his chair, a slight smirk on his face. He glanced at his roommate, Ben, who was furiously scribbling in his notebook. Leo knew Ben's true feelings, his fears, his dreams.

He let out a short laugh. He knew about the girl Ben liked, the secret he had about his family, the things he never said aloud. All perfectly recorded.

He stretched his arms, feeling the muscles loosen. He thought about when he would bring the journal to class tomorrow. He thought about how it would feel to watch Ben realize the truth.

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